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The Map Within

If we were to give our emotions a physicality, what would they feel like? Is it a warmth in the chest? A lightness in the belly? Would the shoulders drop a full half inch? Is it an urge to move, to laugh, to hold communion with someone we appreciate? Or […]

The Point of Here

We spend much of our lives searching. Searching for who we are. Searching for what we’re here to do. Searching for what we’re meant to become. We look inward for answers, outward for direction, and somewhere in between, we try to make sense of the experience of being alive. We […]

In the Face of Seeing

We are witnesses. And at the same time we understand, in the right now, the unbearable weight of seeing. We taste the bitter tang of loss. Within the shape of ourselves and collectively. Our toes touch the line between us and the world. The line between us and devastation. Between […]

There You Are

So much of life is spent in motion. Forward. Away. Toward what is next. Sometimes that movement comes from a sense of readiness. And sometimes, if we are honest, it comes from the hope that if we keep going, we might not be required to fully meet what is. That […]

Into What Is

We often describe Presence as something we practice. It is, after all, the most people thing we can do. To take what already is and practice is-ing with it. We might meditate or focus on our breath. If we’ve done it enough, we might notice our thoughts or even notice […]

The Rhythm of Right Now

There is a point where everything stops pointing at itself. Where the light is no longer new, the heat no longer surprising. Even the intensity of the brightness has become familiar. In the full bloom of summer the real work begins. Not the arrival. Not the awakening. But the inhabiting. […]

The Solstice and the Burn

Welcome to the Solstice and the beginning of Cancer season. We’re standing at the pinnacle of the solar year, exactly halfway between one winter Solstice and the next – fully immersed in the blazing heat of summer. Where the light shows us the way. It seems like it should be […]