Grace The Collection

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During a beach vacation in Summer 2019, just before I started a new position, I was reading an article in O, The Oprah Magazine where Melinda Gates was interviewed. She said something about grace that struck me. She was talking about the work the Gates Foundation was doing and mentioned the grace we have to extend to others when we’re telling their stories. I remember how profound that seemed. And there was something about that word — grace. It lingered in my mind, but eventually vacation ended and I went back to work and my day-to-day life.

The new year was fast approaching and while many people create resolutions, I had spent the last few years selecting a word that would guide me throughout the months ahead. In past years, I had chosen words like elevate, unapologetic and authentic. I wasn’t yet sure what my word would be for 2020, but the word and idea of grace began to appear — in things I was reading and hearing and even in conversations I was having. And though the word grace itself didn’t give me the warm and fuzzy feeling that my words had in the past, it stuck with me and I decided to go with it.

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