June 11, 2019

I’ve been offering my children gentle suggestions about digging into the work that builds equity in a world full of rules, fear, and walls. For example, there are a thousand and one reasons people are hungry and food isn’t always the issue. The real work that digs deep and creates new normals has to be full of lifelong goals. In fact, it’s often just as you feel good about what you’ve done that you’ve got to learn to share the story in more meaningful ways and allow the work to settle in lower than some people may be comfortable with. That’s when you discover reasons for poverty, loneliness, loss that you never could have imagined. In order to really reach those who need it most we must be willing to let our egos go and allow our expectations to fizzle. The “feel goods” fade away and relationship takes its place, one meal at a time.