Dear Dreamer, Have you ever wondered why we are so afraid of being alone? I have. Perhaps it is because solitude asks something of us that the world rarely does. It asks us to be still. To listen. To sit with the thoughts we have spent so much of our lives trying to outrun. There is a peculiar vulnerability in being alone with oneself. Without the familiar voices of others, without the comforting distractions of everyday life, we are left in the company of someone we may not