The Spark We Share
I didn’t write about Robin Williams because he was famous. I wrote about him because he was familiar. This is the story behind that reflection—a quiet remembering of presence, pain, and the spark we all carry.
Wisdom is how you live.
I didn’t write about Robin Williams because he was famous. I wrote about him because he was familiar. This is the story behind that reflection—a quiet remembering of presence, pain, and the spark we all carry.
The Stoics taught us how to endure. But what if they didn’t go far enough? This reflection explores the missing step between philosophy and spirituality in the Western tradition—and why that still matters today.
What if the road not taken isn’t a bold leap outward — but a quiet turn inward? This is a reflection for anyone at the edge of familiar patterns, finally ready to choose presence over performance, and wholeness over the quick way forward.
I didn’t set out to become more empathetic—I just couldn’t live detached anymore. What once protected me became the path back to presence. This reflection traces how emotional numbness, inherited as survival, eventually gave rise to deep recognition, connection, and healing.
Before a child ever discovers their own spark, they live by the spark of ours. Protecting the spark — both theirs and our own — is the sacred duty of parents, mentors, teachers, coaches, and leaders.