Uncomfortable, Aware, Alive
The new school year is upon us, a natural transition time our culture has curated for this season of the calendar. I love natural transitions and find our man-made ones fascinating. It's weird to think about times before when people didn't march to the same beat we do now. We need structure and community and rest. We also need outside entities to pull us out of ourselves. I could pursue comfort my whole life, while letting my insides decay without thinking twice about it. So in my pursuit for something deeper in this life I get to live, I'm finding myself uncomfortable, A LOT. And also, more aware and alive. The school shooting will never go away from my story. At this time my major connections to community are rooted at The Covenant School, which means most of my friends, my friend's kids, my co-workers are all living with unthinkable layers. And the thing that is insane to me about life is that none of us are getting a hall pass for the other difficulties of simply li