Sunday, March 1, 2026
Yesterday I went out to South Padre Island to swim in the ocean. It is one of the advantages of spending my winters in Texas, and I am surprised that this was my first trip out there this year. The last day of February?
I have been in busy creative mode fashioning a new website that creates a space for all the different parts of me: the writer, the artist, the teacher, the seeker. It has been harder than I thought it would be, and it isn’t just the hours spent at a computer learning a new platform. It is the hours spent in inquiry. Who am I? What parts of myself am I willing to put out there? What parts want to remain behind the curtain quiet and unseen?
That last question is a big one for me. There is a part of me that wants to remain behind the curtain. The world out there looks messy and cruel and confusing. Do I want to go play on that playground? Really? But there is another more powerful part of me that is committed to taking all I can from this human life I was given. And to giving back. And I want to spend it in the company of others who take that commitment seriously.
So, the ocean.
Water. It is my element. When I went to the island I went straight to the beach and then straight into the water. It is so huge and so powerful. I may as well be a jellyfish bobbing around in the midst of all that water. And in fact, I am just a jellyfish.
That ocean puts it all into perspective. I am not making a big splash with my “new website.” I have no more to offer than anybody else, and yet I am guided and compelled to want to share stories, experience and learning. And so here I am.
As I go forward offering my simple micro courses and inviting people in to join me in the journeys and courses I’m creating, I want to keep things in perspective. We are both so so small and so large and limitless. It is the dance between these two energies that makes this life interesting.
Just a note, as much fun as I have been having creating the “Thought Partners” in Chatgpt, I’ve decided that this weekly blog post will be all me. It is like that urge to go to the ocean yesterday, there is a pulse flowing under all we are doing and part of my goal is to tune in and to follow that pulse. So when I share here, it is just me, bobbing around in a very large ocean of energy.
Pulse, impulse . . . repulse. Following it all.
Leave a comment if you are bobbing around out there with me.
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