Freedom from Loneliness

Filter's 'Take a Picture' for #FreedomMusicFriday, plus Chapter 4.XX of 'The Distributed Nation.'

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
—Mother Teresa

Loneliness bothers me.

Not so much my own—I have been with my wife since the beginning of this millennium, and a father since 2005, so I haven’t had much cause to feel lonely for quite a while. But the the thought of other people being lonely—that bothers me.

Plenty of…