"No matter how many projects and campaigns and initiatives and alliances we set in motion, we won't find fundamental solutions to societal ills until we learn how to approach this work with greater awareness, compassion, and humility." - Seasons Fund for Social Transformation

I remember returning to Chicago's O"Hare airport after a stay in a quiet Austrian village. My first impression upon returning to America was that I had landed in a hive of bees. The airport, the highways, the city were full of a buzz and hum and dizzy pace from which I had stepped away. It did not take long for that gap to bridge -- for me to join back in to the scurry and clicking and whirring and thrumming. My life ramped up at an astonishing pace and stayed in overdrive for a long time.