I will just come out and say it: it takes grounded action to make a difference in the world. Today we live in a milieu of polycrisis. It comes in waves for most of us — at times we're bombarded with environmental, economic, personal, familial, and societal disasters all at once. Writing this as a white woman living in the U.S., I recognize that the waves are often more gentle on me than they are on people of color in other areas of the world. My heart breaks for the separati