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 […]
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 […]
The complexity of grief is that we are dually grieving both a first and second loss. The first loss is what sets us grieving in the first place – cancer snatching our sister too soon, the cruel and unnecessary homicide […]
We are nearly four weeks into 2020, the time when new year’s resolutions may be starting to fade, and I, for one, am already feeling a bit weary, and it seems much too soon for that. In the few short […]
In celebration of my twenty-sixth lap around the sun, I hopped on a plane to Kansas City to soak up 72 hours of autumn leaves, falling snow, and the people who transformed the midwest into a second home. After a […]
