Eating food was – for a long stretch – equivalent to swallowing razor blades and expecting a positive outcome. When something so vital began to backfire with chronic pain, it became a losing battle trying to keep any weight on […]
Eating food was – for a long stretch – equivalent to swallowing razor blades and expecting a positive outcome. When something so vital began to backfire with chronic pain, it became a losing battle trying to keep any weight on […]
The sunset ignites with pink, orange, & purple hues once again.I notice the leaves – they’re dancing – inviting me to move, to play.Tears transition from markers of grief to cascades of gratitude.Laughter, it bubbles foreignly, a new soundtrack to […]
You made it to the finish line of the UBUNTU UNITY CHALLENGE by choosing a little HUMILITY, and we couldn’t be more proud of ya for showing up all the way ’til the end of the challenge! We started this […]
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 they can also push us outside of our comfort […]
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 […]