"Honor the space between no longer and not yet." Nancy Levin As we enter True Spring and the hope, planning, and aspiration that accompanies these longer, warmer days, let us pay homage to the power of Small Attainable Goals. - We are surfing the tail-end(ish) of prolonged uncertainty, loss, pain, and harm in which the only reliable constant has been unreliability and chaos. The Tridemic of COVID19, Violence and Isolation has disrupted even our most stable and reliable system

Dear Everyone: Stress isn’t a bad thing. In fact, stress - particularly when appropriate, scaffolded supports are in place - is central to growth and development for both children and adults. The stress that results from adversity builds strength, courage and stamina. This last year, however, has been something else for most of us. A continuum exists from stress --> trauma, and while there are multiple factors that separate healthy stress from harmful trauma, the unrelenting

Flecti Non Frangi: To be bent, but unbroken. This idea is the heart of our work at Lodestar -- how do we realize and acknowledge the harm, and be deliberative and aspirational as we move through it. How do we emerge not only unbroken, but having experienced intratraumatic healing and growth? Lately I’ve been wondering about this more collectively. Will we emerge from this time of unrelenting toxic stress bent but stronger? Kinder? Wiser? More patient? More understanding? More