We've all had a tense month. With the resurgence of this pandemic and the fever pitch of the final weeks of the election season, it's totally fine to want to reset.

That yearning for a return to "normal" or the pursuit of a "new normal." I'm not a fan of either of those concepts. A sense of balance is wonderful - it's restorative, it's truly valuable, especially now. Normal, however, breeds complacency. Normal makes us feel like we've achieved and we're finished. And that's where the problem lies.

In this work, especially in our youth programming, we've consistently seen that the needle is always shifting. The needs of our society are always changing. And the path towards equity keeps going forward as we uncover new areas of silence as well as old roots of injustice that need to be pulled.

We might feel a sense of relief that at least that one source of stress which was the election season is behind us. At the same time we must also acknowledge that it doesn't automatically mean that confronting prejudice, bigotry, and discrimination is done. In fact, now is when we must furtively address it, so it remains in a place of prominence on everyone's agenda.

The battle hasn't been fought and won. We haven't magically arrived at equity. There is yet important work to be done.