There's no I in Team

Hello Troublemakers!

I am writing this from my funky hotel room in Detroit where my husband and I are celebrating 12 years of marriage and even more years of #BlackLove. It’s the first time we’ve left the kiddo in a long time and I miss him/we really needed this!

While I’m taking a bit of time to relax and connect, I’m also looking at the news roll in from time to time, and each time I do it feels like there is a new crisis. Hottest July we’ve ever had on record in the history of recording weather. Hospitals filling up with COVID patients again/still. A devastating earthquake in Haiti. Medical kidnapping. Afghanistan.

It’s too much. It makes me want to hide under the covers all day* and wait for things to fix themselves. But we both know that’s not how any lasting change comes.

I also recognize my own limitations. Even if I wasn’t on (Covid friendly) vacation, what am I alone going to do that troubles and disrupts and reimagines the current realities facing our communities and our world…