✝️ Wishing those who celebrate it - a very Happy Easter✝️

Disclosure: February's newsletter exists. It is sitting in a folder, complete. I chose not to send it.

I was in the States during a snowstorm when the world shifted again. Immigration. Tariffs. The war. The unnecessary sacrifice of precious human lives felt both distant and devastating. I wrote five versions of that newsletter and not one of them had my heart in it. So I did what I always do when the stakes are real. I went quiet. I went inside. I waited until I had something worth saying. Regular scheduling will resume at the end of the month.

Before all of that, I was living my best life. In New York to close out Nasdaq’s Black History Month, getting a little stuck and then escaping to Jamaica for a writing retreat. I was in my element, feeling the grounding of being “home”. Then overnight, the wall kicked in. And I was navigating like the rest of you. From privilege. From uncertainty. From a place of genuinely not knowing what to say.

That is precisely where this edition begins.

Three things have been shaping my thinking this past month.