This has been an emotional week, a week of grief, anger, uncomfortable truths, and encounters that have reminded me how important discernment has become.

What happens when we begin to recognize dishonesty, manipulation, avoidance of responsibility and unhealthy structures around us and realize that remaining silent is also a choice?

Every system can develop its “rotten apples.” Sometimes people learn how to hide, manipulate, avoid responsibility or protect structures that should have changed long ago. But when one person begins to speak honestly, something interesting happens: others often begin to recognize what they have been seeing too.

And sometimes anger has something important to tell us. Sometimes it says: Enough is enough.

Week 35 is an invitation to see more clearly, question what no longer feels right, us ...