Look what each of us is given— a chance in the other. A chance to learn, to be nutty, to get messy, to get hurt, to grow.

We need the vulnerable ones to unglue us from our selfies, our cliques, our over-packed agendas, our power-driven races to one more race.

"If you learn nothing else in college, learn how to communicate," said my dad. It was 1988 and we were standing on the campus of Syracuse...