Above & Beyond or Basic Human Decency?

S.J. Elliott
7 min readJan 12, 2022

We expect and accept so little from each other.

Early last week, a nasty winter storm caused a massive traffic nightmare along the I-95 corridor in Virginia. It stranded hundreds of motorists, some for upwards of 24 hours.

People were stuck in their cars, overnight, in 20-degree temperatures. Social media blew up with pleas for help, food, anything. The governor has been…

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S.J. Elliott

Aspiring story-teller. Ordained coffee connoisseur. I write about processing personal trauma, & my quest to be a better version of myself as a human/woman/wife.