The graphic design gigs are fewer and farther between. The book isn’t published. I’m 53 and calling myself an author anyway. Living As-If isn’t about pretending. It’s about refusing to let your circumstances decide who you are.

During a guided meditation, I noticed something the instructions didn’t specify: the stairwell only went up one floor at a time. To keep climbing, I had to walk the entire length of each floor first.

Turns out I wasn’t doing it wrong. I was being shown how growth actually works.