Today is Juneteenth. A day of promise and hope — promise and hope that the United States did not deliver.

And yet, here we are, still trying.

Here we are, over 150 years later, incrementally acknowledging our failures — and endeavoring to do better.

Here we are still having to say Black and Brown Lives Matter.

Many businesses have declared Juneteenth a holiday.

And so today, instead of writing a long blog, I am going to take a holiday, too. And instead of writing, I’m going to look at how this heart-centered practice of we can contribute to the change I want to be in the world.

Will you join me?