 The past couple of weeks have been surreal.
It’s taken me some time to wrap my head around it. A lot of quiet reflection. Realizing how fortunate I am to have my health, how privileged I am to be able to work safely from home. Even in unbelievable uncertainty, I know I can count my blessings. I send my love and thanks to all those essential workers and their families, who are giving so much of themselves during this time. As we start to think about what a new normal might look like, I encourage us to take a moment to reflect on the lessons we’ve learned about ourselves. There's a wisdom in my culture, Sankofa, which means "go back and get it". The idea here is that to understand where you are going, you need to know where you've been. Like the Adinkra symbol that represents it, Sankofa asks us to look back into the past, taking lessons we’ve learned into the future. I believe that after everything we’ve been experiencing together, we are capable of being so much more inclusive than we ever imagined. |
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