05/14/2026
5.13. My sweet mom always made this day magic for me. She told me that Friday the 13th was lucky when everyone at school said I was born on a day of bad luck. My family always makes this day special even now (Bailey won vocals this year). These people I get to do life with and have them walk beside me even when they are far away. They’ve seen it all. I’m grateful for far too much to fit in a caption. To all of the people that have pieces of my heart, my love, family, friends, patients (I consider all of you friends), and those of you I’ve come to know from this little space. Our stories are all so deep and vast. How many people come to my mind when I think of how filled I have been in this life. Isn’t it wonderful that people matter this much. Permanent parts of our stories that we call our life.
As I sit here watching magic happen on this day (I’ll share soon), I’m to the point where I’ve asked so many of you to be. To be able to feel the YES of sitting down with that wild child younger version of you and asking her (or him) after telling your story up until now, are you happy, thrilled, surprised and fulfilled by who I am, who you are here, how we survived and the way in which we continued? Do you love who we are? Have I made good on all the promises we made in secret, have I payed attention to the details that mattered so much to you? Did I remember what mattered most? Did I not let us get swept away by conditioning, proving, pleasing and achieving but have I moved towards the fulfilling of your hearts desires, your calling, your deep loves and your purest passions? Have I protected what mattered and left behind what didn’t? Have I held in all the places that we were called to hold? Have I learned how to let go of the rest? Are we satisfied?
I’m not done yet but I’ve locked in on the direction instead of any destination.
Me with her. You with you. Because no one else is in every breath, intention and blink of your life. But then again they kind of are in some ways too aren’t they? Choose wisely. It’s an accumulation game.
How fortunate are we to get to experience it all.
Thank you all for any amount of time you’ve shared wit me. All of it matters.