Pick a lane and fill it.

Right after the 2016 election, Sarah and I went to a meeting of Stand Up for Racial Justice. It’s a good group that, as I understand it, is about amplifying the work of other groups. That makes sense to me as a goal.

But what I really took away from that meeting was a phrase from one of the speakers, “Pick a lane and fill it.”

If you start to pay attention to politics in your country you’ll quickly realize that there is a lot that’s in need of fixing. And so it’s tempting to try to follow all of it, fix all of it, and, in doing that, lose yourself and…