Steps of Presence
Here you’ll find my collection of weekly reflections: lyrical essays on presence, love, and joy. Each piece is a step through daily life that reveals the sacred woven into the ordinary.
Some insights arrive as lightning bolts. Others emerge through patterns that have been there all along. Through mark making, a simple realization emerged: we are all makers. As I've spent…
Lately, I’ve been wondering about oomph. It’s hard to explain and easier to feel: the kind of vitality that makes you want to show up for your own life. I…
We make decisions as if certainty exists. Yet life teaches otherwise. It’s all an experiment, whether we realize it or not. We fall in love, move across countries, start businesses,…
Recently, I began painting. Not because I expect to become a fine artist or because I need another career. Something inside me simply whispered: How about this? So, here I…
There was a time when you could feel someone’s style the moment they entered a room. Not because it was louder or more dramatic. Quite the opposite. Something about it…
We spend much of our lives trying to be free—free from expectations, from the past, from what has shaped us. But even when some of those things fall away, life…
We come to know ourselves through the stories we’ve lived—the challenges we’ve faced, the paths we’ve walked, the moments that shaped us. Over time, these experiences become more than memories.…
There is a way we live when self-love still feels like something that needs to be explained. We explain why we are the way we are, what shaped us, what…
There are moments when you are living your life…and also watching it as both participant and observer. It happens when we remember to see. Not just look—but see. To notice…
The Power of Presence Over Pursuit For almost two years, Gary and I have spent a lot of time in Costa Rica, yet we had never been to the National…
A Journey Through Life in Essays
Whether you’re here for your first essay or returning, thank you for being part of this journey. Your presence brings these words to life. As we continue to step together, may each reflection spark deeper awareness, connection, and joy in your own daily dance through life.