you can show someone love without knowing their name yet! say hello n commit to practicing seeing n loving the people around you— compliment the choices you can see they’ve made, or sum u notice in their becoming: their glasses, the way they keep their shoulders relaxed, the generosity of their laugh! this goes extra for Black people, homeless people, n other people the state trains us to invisibilize n see as zeroes. very quickly will strangers become community once you learn and call them by their names :)