As you come to know the seriousness of our situation—the war, the racism, the poverty in the world—you come to realize that it is not going to be changed just by words or demonstrations. It’s a question of risking your life. It’s a question of living your life in drastically different ways.
Once I dropped from my shoulders the self-imposed burden of having to “save the world,” I could breathe a sigh of relief and ask myself, “What can I still do?”
Deb Ozarko