This month asks us to get really honest about how aligned what we give our attention to is with what we want for our lives—both individual and civic.

I’ve tried various ways of mitigating the harmful effects of social media and screened devices for myself, with varying success. But I believe my most recent move against my co-dependent relationship with screens—to take every Sunday completely away from them—is perhaps finally tipping the scales in a bigger way.

This month doesn’t allow for a lot of trepidation. “Hesitantly” isn’t an acceptable adjective for anything we do right now. It’s time to trust that we will be able to change, course-correct, evolve, and adapt on the run—rather than trying to perfect ourselves before taking the first step.

To know when, where, and how we are hiding—that is, not to hide from even ourselves—and to have intention behind those choices, is the pathway to finding and doing our true work.

The project of Tall Grass Transformational Services—in using writing, services, and events to explore the concept transformation personally and communally—and very publicly— has me afraid to my core of being misunderstood…

Throughout this life, our one body is the only body we can and will ever live with. There is no real or lasting escape. Yet within this constant and inseparable tenet of existence, our bodies are our best teachers of and allies in change…