I believe in the possibility of a world where our interconnection is a deeply known and motivating force, where no one is left out, where the innate dignity of every person is acknowledged, and where hatred and fear and greed can be tempered.

I care about your pain yet cannot control it.

We don’t all share the same degree or type of pain, but we share the vulnerability of loss, of change. We can lie in bed feeling helpless and unseen.

Sometimes how you solve a problem is as important as solving it. Mindfulness has taught me how to stay with the conversations that have the scary potential to shift the whole way I see myself or the way I’m working.

It’s important to keep track of the vastness of an issue, but working to try to change things for one person, or one set of people, isn’t nothing.

With mindfulness we can observe our assumptions as thoughts upon their first arising, instead of noticing them only after they have driven us to action.

THIS SENSE OF agency to remake our own lives or the world that we see can happen at any time, at any age.

Efforts toward change are an expression of our own innate dignity and testament to the belief that what we do matters in this world. We engage not only to try to foster change right now, we engage to enliven what we believe to someday yet be possible.

I believe in a world where change might be hard but is always seen as possible, however stuck we might feel in any given moment.