On Saturday, the Arlington County Board voted to rename the stretch of road from Rosslyn to East Falls Church on which our Arlington studio has sat since its inception. I spoke at Saturday's Board meeting to offer full-throated and full-hearted support for the renaming as a stakeholding business-owner whose mission is community connection, healing, and wellness.

Wellness doesn't stop at our private garden gate. The pain and suffering of one among us is the responsibility of all of us. If we see someone fall down on the street, we ask if they are hurt, and render aid for any resulting wounds. And if the cause of their fall was someone else sticking out their foot to trip them deliberately, the moral obligation to help them is all the more powerful.

Seven decades before we arrived there in 1994, our "highway" was renamed for the leader of the Confederate Army as part of a national trend to intimidate and make unwelcome those who descended from enslaved humans, and who were contributing flourishing lifeblood to communities across America. Jim Crow stuck its foot out in Arlington, causing harm and leaving generations of psychological pain. Now, we're standing up together to walk along a healing road.

We are thrilled and proud to take our standing poses, our healing meditations, and many future deep inhales and exhales on the newly-minted Langston Boulevard. And we can't wait to see you there.