19/03/2026
This morning, before recording Week 3 of Path of Presence, I sat with a coffee and watched a pigeon and a squirrel share the garden.
I stood up.
A shadow moved across the patio doors.
The pigeon startled… and vanished into the sky.
Gone in an instant. No question. No return.
The squirrel paused.
It felt the moment.
It listened.
Its body alert, ears poised to the edges of the world…
And then, seeing no real danger,
it softened back into what it was doing —
gently turning seeds between its hands,
as if nothing had happened at all.
Same moment.
Two ways of meeting life.
One leaves.
One stays.
Most of us have been taught to fly at the first sign of discomfort —
to brace, to protect, to move away from what feels uncertain.
But there is another way of being here.
To feel everything…
without being taken by it.
To respond…
without carrying the moment forward.
To let the disturbance pass through the body
like wind through open space.
This is the path we walk in Path of Presence.
Not becoming unshakeable,
but becoming returnable.
Not removing fear,
but loosening its grip.
So that, again and again,
we can come back —
to the breath,
to the body,
to what is quietly, already here.
Thank you Scott for the beautiful image:
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