My mother who is an artist tells me, as we surface out of pandemic, that she is starting to feel Inclinations again. I can relate to this and can start to feel some relief as vaccination news continues to be hopeful. This week has been about moving toward a post pandemic life. I recognize that part of our inner work will be about integration. There can be no way to feel the death of 500,000 Americans, never mind the world...well over 2 million deaths. I am completing pieces that were started during lockdown and during the immediate aftermath of the killing of George Floyd.

I have struggled with finishing these pieces in part, because the inner work required by them. The Mother piece came from the trauma of Goerge Floyd’s cry “Mama, I can’t breathe!” I am white and I don’t know how to process the awfulness of what I know my black brothers and sisters have been dealing with daily since the beginning of this country.

Inclinations. Emerging from pandemic means beginning to be able to hug family members and feel some relief there and it means beginning to feel feelings that have been too big to process.

Inclinations. Looking for ways to uplift black voices and to address the systemic white supremacy and racism where I see it, in myself and in my world.