You picked up the master key this week and you continued unlocking our nation’s capacity for unity by reawakening CURIOSITY. Wonder and imagination can be a whole lot of fun, but (as you know from recent experience) they can also […]
You shook things up this week and did another hard thing: you practiced EMPATHY in some radical ways! It’s not easy to lay aside the comfort of sticking with our like-minded tribes, but you did it! You stepped outside the […]
You did the hard thing! You dove headfirst into the UBUNTU UNITY CHALLENGE and started with the courageous work of looking inward. Writing out those ugly, unfiltered prejudices and judgments was no doubt uncomfortable for many of us (if not […]
Welcome to the UBUNTU UNITY CHALLENGE! To kickoff an exciting month of reimagining unity for our nation (one DARE at a time), we’d love to get to know the brave humans in our ubuntu crew! Introduce yourself in the comments […]
The words come out fumbling, as if I’m telling the story of someone else’s life or repeating gruesome details from the scene of a suspense film. It was already three years ago, but my mind involuntarily recalls seconds and minutes […]
I often feel like a walking contradiction,My steady undercurrents of easy laughter and unquenchable curiosity,Wonder at the world and whoever just might be in front of me,Now, in this moment. Constant.Contradictions, parts of me that seem permanently altered – damaged,A […]
An Interview with Melody B. Courage that has named its fears and unmet expectations is the sort of tenacity we could use a little more of. Bravery that dares to speak the truth and to spread its arms wide, to […]
About this time last year, COVID-19 began sneaking its way into San Diego, forcing us into the unfamiliar isolation and halting pace of a shelter-in-place. To remind us we weren’t alone in the weirdness (and to some degree, scariness) of […]
There are a handful of remarkable people who walk into our lives and, without even realizing it, we find ourselves introducing them as family. Timmy Pourkazemi is one of those for me, and so it is with absolute biased excitement […]
Darkness, you feel permanent. As the healthy fall sick, casualties of humanity’s pursuit of frenzy and movement, casualties of being alive. Darkness, are you outside? In them? In me? Darkness, you feel thick yet transparent, pressing in so hard I […]
