Imagine this: you’re standing in a line with strangers, moving together as the line snakes its way around the room.

You meet the eyes of people you’ve never seen before — and the strangeness dissolves. Laughter, joy, and rhythm flow through you all. The music is foreign, yet somehow it becomes yours.

What if we could all move together like that — one step forward, one step behind — into a shared sense of community? A place where divisions melt, and no one is seen as “the other.”

This, you think, is what the world could be.

A night of connection

I had a moving and memorable experience on Oct. 12 at an event called “Balkan Night” at Vashon Center for the Arts.

The Balkans — a region of southeastern Europe that includes Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Montenegro, North Macedoni

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