I’ve had the issues that I discussed yesterday at the
forefront of my mind since then. I hope that I can continue to maintain the
urgency I feel to actively dismantle racism.

On the plane ride home, I struck up a conversation with a
pilot who was sitting next to me. He was reading a book about astronomy, and so
we chatted about the stars. I recommended visiting the observatory outside of
Marfa, TX. I explained that my favorite part was lying down and watching
different constellations pointed out with the laser pointer. He shared that he
had purchased his own powerful laser pointer for astronomical reasons. When he
first

The news about the legalization of marriage for all hit me by surprise and with an overwhelming
sense of relief. It’s about time that we extended the basic right to marry to
all humans. How in the hell did we let it take so long?

More than 20 years ago as a teenager, I remember developing
a social conscious and thinking about how ignorant we were going to seem as a
society through the lens of time. I considered gay rights to be the most urgent
civil rights issue of our time.

And then I started working at schools in low-income
communities with primarily children of color and I realized