by Steve S | Dec 28, 2025 | Attention & Presence
I have been wondering whether we should recover a more traditional form of invitation when we meet—words from the past, such as your presence is requested, or even required. The phrase feels heavy now, almost foreign, yet it exposes our present condition: present has...
by Steve S | Dec 27, 2025 | Attention & Presence
I sat waiting—wondering, weighing the path ahead. From somewhere beneath thought, a notion surfaced—not abruptly, but slowly, like a bubble rising from depth, gathering shape as it climbed, until it broke the surface and was gone. And I wondered if this, too, was...
by Steve S | Dec 26, 2025 | Inner Life
Let us speak of a matter that carries weight—of a word that loses its shape when we try to define it not by what it is, but by what it leaves behind. When meaning is measured by outcome alone, truth is quietly bent. What remains is not definition, but...