Annette Aviles
 

Today I stood at the inlet and watched the water. I watched waves crash against the rocks. I watched some of the water lose momentum. I watched some of it find another path. I watched the current enter the channel, move toward the center, crash against the sides, and then continue its journey. Some of the wave appeared to disappear. Yet moments later its energy emerged somewhere else. They were not gone they reorganized. The Earth held the boundary. The Water explor

Not all discoveries happen in a book. Some happen here. The last few days have been interesting. I went looking for answers and instead found questions. I sat on the beach wondering why I kept encountering denial in my life. As I followed the thread, something unexpected appeared. It wasn't about what was being denied. It was about who. The realization landed: I had been denying my own existence. I was not doing this consciously nor was it in a dramatic way. Simply thr