Blessed Yule ✨ PRESENCE IS THE GIFT

Self-portraiture

I have always been drawn to this symbol & image of the reminder to BE PRESENT… Long before I performed in this garb on the legendary Byrd Theatre stage, and long before I retired my performer self to step into the self I am now… a guide to felt-sense PRESENCE… aka a meditation & Dharma teacher.

On this longest night & shortest day may we all be reminded that we can tap into the limitless GIFT of embodied PRESENCE. Remembering that liberation is that timeless, boundless, formless PRESENCE we can tap into NO MATTER the outside causes & conditions… no matter the man-ufactured scarcity driven by man-ufactured greed… no matter the poison of others or the toxicity of the environment we all find ourselves surviving through…

There is a place of SOURCE within self… the DIVINE knowledge that we come from & will always return to the cosmos, that we are quite literally made of STARDUST, inextricably bound together on this giant rock, and our time in this iteration of waking consciousness is so short & precious… we can take this exact remembering to fall back into our bodies in deep Wholeness & gratitude for being a waking spec of miraculous Light, capable of choosing to un-harden our hearts against the forces & human-made systems that which thrive on stealing our joy.

There is no greater gift than sharing your Whole masterpiece & work-in-progress self with every moment of your life. BE THERE in your mess, BE THERE in your playtime, BE THERE with your tears, your sorrow your joy… For every moment that your body, your mind & your heart are occupying the SAME space & time… you transcend your own mortality… because you will FEEL & remember what it is like to be FULLY HUMAN.