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It is hard to know how to maintain creativity and faith during times of chaos and political division, when interactions are fueled by fear and contempt. The author relates an experience in which shared vulnerability allowed two people on opposite ends of the political spectrum find access to their common humanity, and suggests that vulnerability itself can be an act of creative resistance to splitting, projection, and fear.