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Hey, friends. ♡

How are you doing today?  Hangin’ in there?  Finding a moment when you need it to recharge?

I realize that the last update I posted here was back in March, just a few weeks into what ended up being a very-long and very-strict period of quarantine here in Barcelona, which now feels like a lifetime ago.  Then I actually started typing out this post two weeks ago around Blackout Tuesday, which also now feels like a lifetime ago with everything that has happened since.

Whew.  These past two weeks have been heavy and hard, but so incredibly important.  Here in our home, we have been immersing ourselves in the teachings and perspectives being offered by Black voices right now, trying to listen and learn more.  But while both Barclay and I have always felt incredibly strongly against racial injustice and have been trying to educate ourselves more about the deep roots of our various forms of white privilege these past few years, I feel like these past two weeks have been a massive wake-up call to how much we still have yet to learn.  And more, that simply learning and being quietly “not racist” is unequivocally not enough.  It is our responsibility to be actively anti-racist — both in how we proactively take action in the world around us, and also in how we internally dig into the roots of our own conscious and unconscious biases and do the work to uproot them.

This moment of reckoning right now feels like a historical turning point for the world.  But while it has been intense and hard and overwhelming to navigate at times — I’m hopeful.

Barclay and I talk often lately about the kind of world that our little IVF embryos might be able to grow up in.  And while there is still obviously tremendous work to be done when it comes to racial justice in the United States and around the world, it has been encouraging to see more melanted voices being amplified, more people of privilege are speaking up and learning how to take effective action, and more policies being changed already as a direct result of those actions.  It feels like we’re moving in the right direction, and I’m hopeful that we can continue doing the work to make the world a more just and safe place for future generations to grow up.  We must keep doing the work.

Here in our house, we are setting aside time each day right now in our house to continue to educate ourselves about ways to take action to better support our Black brothers and sisters — both in the United States, here in Spain, and also in the small village in Mali, West Africa, where Barclay’s non-profit works.  I also wanted to say that I’ve been giving a lot of thought to this space here, and have some ideas that I look forward to sharing with you soon about how our love of food (!) could bring us (you and me!) together to do some important justice work in the world.  More updates on that to come. ♡

As for today, I’m sending each of you a big hug from Barcelona and hope that you are safe and well today.  Here is a long-overdue update from our little corner of the world…

Our little embryo.

Our IVF Update

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