Last week we all got a very long e-mail from a troubled human being and
I have been troubled by it ever since.  I did nothing about the e:mail.
 No reaching out to the individual, no calling for help for him by
caregivers who might have been better providers for him nor any
discussion with my museum-l neighbors until now.

What is our individual or collective responsibility when someone
appears on the screen who is in personal distress or (as in this case)
so far away from the norms of human behavior?  Do we have some
responsibility or since they write in such a way as not to invite
comment, do we ignore?

I remain troubled but without any helpful answers for my own personal
responsibility to this person and wonder what others thought, worried
about and maybe even did.

Please let us all know.

Elaine Heumann Gurian
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