“Radical social change had to be viewed as a two-sided transformational process, of ourselves and of our institutions, a process requiring protracted struggle and not just a D-Day replacement of one set of rulers with another.” -Grace Lee Boggs
What sustains you for the hard and long work of transformation?
“I get hooked by the shiny side of transformation. I get caught by the thought that our community can build a better world, that it does change lives and truly makes a difference for people. But all of that can happen without it needing to be transformation. I know that. Because when I sit back and really think about it, transformation is major stuff. It’s about a complete overhaul.” -Douglas Taylor
What in your life needs a complete overhaul?
Sometimes it is difficult or scary to face the ways in which we need to adapt, transform, and grow. It is in those times that the support of a community of accountability becomes that much more important.
What changes or transformations do you need support to make?
Beliefs that remain unexamined can get stuck, calcified like a fossil or a relic. Instead of being living and responsive, they become throwbacks to outdates ways of experiencing the world.
When have you realized that a calcified belief was holding you back?
Around the world today, our Muslim siblings are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, the end of the holy month of Ramadan. It is the holiday of breaking the monthlong fast that has focused Muslims on what is most holy. It begins with prayer, recognizing the holiness of God.
What would you hold up as most sacred and holy today?
