Some questions are not looking for answers.
They are looking for witnesses.

I read Jerry Colonna’s newsletter and felt the echo of that student’s voice: “How do I know what’s right?”

It is such an honest question, trembling between fear and integrity.

But perhaps “what’s right” is not something we know.

Perhaps it’s something we listen to.

Something that reveals itself in relationship to the people, the place, the moment, the unseen.

Leadership has long been taught as a posture of knowing.

But what if it began with not knowing with the humility to stay in the tension between truths?

Ethics is not a map, as Jerry said.

It is a movement, a living dialogue between our inner voice and the world’s brokenness.

It is where tenderness meets responsibility.

It asks us not only what is right, but for whom, with whom, and at what cost.

There is no purity in leadership.
There is only practice!

Practice to remain porous when the world rewards armor, to stay in conversation when silence feels safer, to remember that doing good is not the same as being whole.

The question, then, may not be “how do I know what’s right?”but “how do I stay human while I decide?”

Every time we choose from that place, not from certainty, but from presence, we become the kind of leader this world still dares to hope for.

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