If I were pressed to say what the last few years of my life have been about, I would have to answer that they are about this – opening my eyes. To love, to responsibility, to help, to connection, to standing in my truth, living out of fear. All things I thought were not possible, all things that are. Walking with Maria after dinner, I looked up and saw this sky, and saw a cold front sweeping through and thought again, how close beauty is if I open my eyes.