2020 Gratitude

We are grateful to the change makers who have persisted and adapted and persisted and adapted through each twist of 2020.

We are grateful to the change makers lying awake at night not counting sheep but counting the ever rising number of people who need help.

We are grateful to the change makers who have learned to lead from a distance when they yearn to be together.

We are grateful to the change makers who work for justice even as the tide of resistance comes to shore.

We are grateful to the change makers who keep going through tears of grief, frustration and worry.

We are grateful to the change makers who change the world while they're changing diapers and zoom schooling because there are no other options.

We are grateful to the change makers who encourage and comfort their teams even when they are heartbroken and struggling.

We are grateful to the change makers who have decided, reversed, and tried again while looking into the unknowable future.

We are grateful to the change makers who care for us when we are sick, hungry and lost, even as they have so little time to care for themselves.

We are grateful to the change makers who put perfection aside and find the courage to act in the face of uncertainty.

We are grateful to the change makers who are essential to our community and often essentially overlooked.

We are grateful to the change makers who make change their life's work.

Thank you to the change makers of 2020.

Author: Stacy Van Gorp