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Crystalized View: Worthington’s Need for a Unifying Space

10/09/2023

I was witness to stories of inequality, pain, trauma, and disconnection, while marveling at the collective power of what could be: why they stay, and the future they envision for their children and grandchildren.

My Second Life on the Water

08/30/2023

Guiding fundamentally changed how I view, interact with, and share our rivers and natural spaces with others.

VIEW: Tale of Two Cities — Selecting a Police Chief

11/01/2022

Particularly in policing, but in every facet of civic life, what we need is to recenter the forming of partnerships as the heart of the activity, as both the means and the end.

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VIEW: The “Ellie Krug Plan for Making the World Better”

12/09/2021

How do we fix things? Is there a magical solution? Can we ever get past the fear?

VIEW: Registering Fear

10/04/2021

What I was once totally oblivious to now shapes how I decide who I will allow into my intimate life.

VIEW: Hypocrisy

09/13/2021

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I believe that if you agree with a value, it should apply whatever "side" you are on.

Tick… Tock…

09/01/2021

The pressure became nearly unbearable and that time clock on the back of my head transformed more and more into a Frankenstein-like monster.

Trauma and the Chauvin Trial

08/25/2021

The old white guard gets to define what trauma is, and that quickly snowballs into who gets chemical dependency treatment or who gets health care because how people exhibit their trauma doesn’t fit into that white framework.

VIEW: Gun Violence Is a Public Health Issue

08/20/2021

Simply from August 7 to 10 this year, there were more than 15 shooting incidents reported in Minneapolis, and ten of them were fatal.

VIEW: Caring for Our Essential Infrastructure

08/12/2021

Will we support bills that value these workers with adequate training, fair wages, and benefits to show them how essential they really are?

VIEW: Time to Mourn, Time for Care

08/02/2021

New Zealand’s Treasury has developed the Living Standards Framework (LSF) to create an index of wellbeing to gauge whether government policies support a society where “people can live lives they have reason to value.”

VIEW: Commando

07/07/2021

Women, find your freedom. Live it. Love it. Be grateful for it.

VIEW: Apathy or Action?

07/06/2021

In 1776, the Declaration of Independence was intended for mainly white men.

VIEW: Hot Mess

06/10/2021

For me, it is about wanting to be loved as the true, real me — a woman with a way-too-deep-voice, who is an idealist trying to change the world for the better with what time she has left.

VIEW: A Mural Grows in St. James

06/10/2021

To honor St. James, a former resident living in Atlanta asked a Latinx artist to work on a mural to capture what makes the community so unique.

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