+5 Months (Believe It!)

Best home ever…until now.

I want to say first off: Thank You. 

This is how it happens: you are doing the life thing, it’s going well, you’re a little scared of the future, but after a few successes and a few travails, it hits you: Life Is Loving You Hard. 

Maybe Life is picking up on what I have come to believe is my superpower, a powerful and actively engaging affection for the human race. Developed from adolescent misanthropy through dogged and applied spiritual transcendence, this outcome has been doubtful for most of my life. See, I used to be quite a sad puppy. 

But Thank You. For your donations, which have saved my life. For offering me places to stay. For giving me rides to the hospital. For helping me get to Canada, and to get treatments outside of those covered by insurance. Can you believe it’s been six + years since my diagnosis at the dawn of 2020? We keep doing this together, you and I.

Now? I am recommitting to my book, and developing a TEDX talk. I’ll be in Canada the latter part of this summer. Mark and I are getting married in October. My treatments continue to work, and I am investigating a new trial for something called CAR-T. New treatments are being developed all the time! AI is also a powerful tool for discovering treatments outside “standard of care”. 

I am also leaving my beautiful A-frame in Idyllwild to finally move in with my partner Mark. Watching Mark step into his greatness on a daily basis with his extraordinary talent and his masterful “humaning” fills me with awe and admiration. Being a daily part of his life and supporting him is the culmination of my life’s journey towards intimacy, a treasure I had historically never expected, but always hoped for.

I am also completing my career in production after more than 25 years. A very adventurous career; the first fifteen years are represented in this four minute video; the last ten years are represented in the extraordinary training in coaching and spiritual psychology I have received and supported professionally, which has led towards a launch of my own career as a coach and speaker. 

This new chapter of my life is the “what gets me out of bed” (along with sheer love and devotion for life and the living). I have been honored to work with the very best in the latter part of my career, and then to work with the most extraordinary coaching clients you can imagine. 

Goodbye, Idyllwild. You have been singular, eternally unique, and powerfully nurturing. May I return quite soon. 

Hello LA! I forgive you, and I love you. Every day I arrive, and every day I thrive.