“Is everyone here?”

Who answers that question? Who has the awareness?

In small groups, it can be easy to know the answer.

In larger groups, we rely on various levels of leadership to know who’s present and who’s missing.

But in any situation, each of us can make our own assessment.

Who’s here? Who should be here? Who isn’t represented? Whose voices should be present?

And when we ourselves are absent, perhaps others will notice and speak up too.