For the Connections
That Keep You Going.

The first time you got a Band-Aid, you weren’t thinking about the cut.

You were thinking about who put it on. The way they held your hand still. The way they said, without saying it, that you were going to be okay. That memory doesn’t leave. It comes back the first time you put one on a friend, or your own kid looking up at you the same way you once looked up.

In a time when we find ourselves farther apart, a Band‑Aid is proof of the connections that keep us going: the goals we reach for and the people we reach for them with.