Come Forth

SHE Is Annette

Sep 18

1 min read

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 through years of waiting, preparing, studying, figuring things out, and sometimes forgetting that the one I was waiting for was already here. Over the following days, a surprising theme began emerging:

Discovery.

Discovering what is already here and what was overlooked of what had been hidden beneath noise, stories, expectations, and old habits. Today, one of asked my littles to watch them do something she had learned. I looked at her and said: "Show me what you discovered you can do."

The moment those words left my mouth, tears came. Because perhaps that is the question many of us are being asked right now. Not: "Who are you trying to become?" But: "What have you discovered?"

This is the spirit behind an upcoming live Zoom gathering called: