There is unrest.

Weighted and dark, moving throughout the country.

I’m watching from here on the bay my beloved city, Richmond, upend and fall apart from the inside out.

Streets I grew up on are unrecognizable to me now.

People being pepper sprayed on their porches?

Curfews?

Limiting freedom of speech?

What is this world we are living in?

I know others feel the weight of these days more permanently and inherently than I.

I am broken hearted for those who have been systemically abused, mistreated and marginalized in this country.
A country I take pride in in so many ways, for our dreams and innovations and independence... but in this?

In this we have it wrong.

We have to find a different way.

How is it that we can’t get this right?
How is it that we are still fighting about this?
The equality of human beings?
This should go without saying... right?

And yet here we are.
Wrestling with the heart issues of the generations before us and cycling through the same motions.

There has to be a better way.

We can do better than this.

The ones who come after us need better than this.

But I believe this to be true as well, which is that it is always darkest before the dawn.

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I am taking the week off of posting to elevate others and attempt to engage more meaningfully in these times and in these moments in the community I have right in front of me.

Keep listening.

Keep learning.

Keep loving.