It's hard to imagine one thing that our species can do for another member of this species than acknowledge the presence of the other, even if briefly, as a member of the same human family. When we look into the face of another person and greet them, and they greet us, we can remind ourselves that we have come from the same small family that endured together so many millennia ago in the pocket of Africa from which the fountain of human life is sprung and welcome our distant cousins with a smile—the most human of gestures.

Welcome, cousin. I hope you prosper and are happy.