John Steinbeck wrote East of Eden for his two young sons and called it the book he’d been practicing his whole life. At its heart is one word, timshel, “thou mayest.” It means we aren’t doomed by where we came from. We get to choose.
Doomscroll Buster is a series of short videos about people who faced dark times and made beauty anyway. Watch them all in the Doomscroll Buster section at pastpassport.com.