Ashley Beighley,
Jamestown, CA

The warmth of the sun shines brightly through storm clouds, and the contrast produces rainbows. Similarly, the diversity of humanity makes our connection with others as beautiful as that separation of the white light spectrum, because seeing, and acknowledging, our differences, reflects the absolute perfection in our human diaspora.
Even when we encounter some people who are closed off to, or even antagonistic towards, the diversity of our modern, global, society, they, too, are a part of that beauty, by being a reminder of the colorless world we would live in if it was only possible to see ourselves by our flaws and not also by our perfection.