Welcome

For just a moment, I want to invite you to lift your gaze from whatever screen these words find you through.

Notice wherever you’re rooted; whether it’s noticing your feet on the ground, your phone in your hand, the temperature of the space that you’re in, or the depth of your breath just take moment to be present with an aspect of your experience.

Right now you’re meeting me through my voice on a page but this voice belongs to a person who is sitting in a room typing on a keyboard.

I too am writing this from the space where I am.

I share that to note that while we gather in this digital space we are much more than what facilitates this gathering. Every person reading this, is taking up space somewhere on the Earth. Every person reading this is rooted to a place, to a history, to a story, to a land, to a connection with the moment that is now.

We are people meeting behind screens - but we are still people full of complexity, dynamism, choice, and power. What we bring to these screens, is capable of impacting the world around us. The stories we tell ourselves and each other are capable of impacting the world we create. What we come to believe about ourselves is capable of informing how we live our lives.

And this is a space that’s concerned about such things.

I want to be clear, I’m not here to convince you to see the world the way that I do. I’m here to share how I’ve come to see the world, how I’ve come to live in a place of perpetual process, how I’ve come to discover time and again that Love is the thing worth being led by, that Love is the point of it all.

All of that being said, I encourage you to traverse the worlds in this world of my making while rooted in your own power, and your own truth. Take breaks and honor your capacity. Some of my art engages big and difficult subjects. If you have big feelings coming up, and it feels like too much, you can always step away from the screen. Trust yourself and honor what you need. Center yourself and honor what you know.

I trust you to know what is true for you, which might not resonate with what has been true for me.

Not all of the Art here reflects who I am in this moment, or how I feel in this moment, or how I think in this moment. If I were to write something in this very moment, it might not reflect who I am in an hour! That’s the beauty of living; anything that I make is a snapshot of a human, existing in a moment, and then shared at a time.

Life has been a series of truths that I’ve found; even if I only find them, to lose them once more, until something more true comes around.

I don’t think that this experience is unique to me! It’s something that, on some level, we all share. Growth is an inevitability even if we grow in ways that reinforce what we’ve come to believe; life will poke us and prod us and water us regardless of where we reach or how we’re rooted.

I think that sometimes this entire enterprise feels lonely because it feels like everyone else is walking lockstep in something more static and reliable and constant. But I’m not so sure if that’s even true. Perhaps although we each wander alone, there’s a togetherness that holds all our wandering.

That togetherness is part of what compels me to share what I’ve made.

I know that at various points on my path I’ve stumbled upon a truth, or a yearning, or a question, or a calling, and I’ve looked around wondering; “Does anyone else feel this way?”

And sometimes I would find someone, and in knowing that they existed I felt more allowed to feel how I was feeling, to pursue what was calling me, to try something risky, to do something that felt like the fucking truth.

I found the togetherness that holds all our wandering.

And it is my hope that this space, in some way, serves that purpose for you.