Of me. Of us. Of everyone. But it always comes back to the particular lives of each of us. Today’s title comes from an essay by author, legal scholar and civil rights activist, Michelle Alexander, written after the shooting deaths of two black men by police and the killing of five police officers by a sniper on three consecutive days in July.

In the weeks that followed, I felt the need for something more very strongly. But what? And how quickly the urgency fades. (Only to return as the events of this week shout out that nothing has changed or gone away; injustice and frustration, oppression and unrest are very much with us.) How do I respond before or to keep me from falling back into the routine of my busy privileged life in denial? I’m not sure. But I have to try. We have to try. Everyone has to try. “Truly transformative change depends more on thoughtful creation of new ways of being than reflexive reactions to the old ways.” Let’s create new ways and new life together.