Edition II: Not every meaningful place announces itself. Some of them only appear after you've stood there long enough. There's a difference between the places we use and the places that slowly begin to hold us. Most spaces in daily life are built for function: pass
Edition I: Some forms of absence look exactly like dedication. There was a period where I thought I had presence figured out. I was focused, disciplined, absorbed in work that mattered to me. In my mind, presence meant being fully inside what I was doing; undistracted, committed, and unavailable in