Finding Purpose

Self sabotage is no stranger here. Noticing the self sabotage and stopping it in its tracks is, however, and I'm extremely proud of myself for noticing it. For the past, I'd say about three months, my novel has been writing itself. I started it in March 2026, and as of the end of May 2026, I'm now on chapter nine of the second draft. So things are going really well! Or at least they were going really well until a couple weeks ago when I had an idea for a change that I could m

There's a song that's been living in my head lately — The Matrix by Nathan. There's a spoken word piece in it that stopped me cold the first time I heard it: "You don't chase the dream, you embody the dreamer. You don't chase love, you become love's resting place. And everything shifts. Not because the world changed, but because your point of view did. You are no longer climbing the mountain. You're realizing you are the mountain. Instead of asking 'what should I do to become