Woven through the seconds, minutes, days, weeks, months, years, decades and moments entwined from our first to last inhalation of life breath, our lives are held together and formed by all those who simply showed up.
Strangers, friends, family and every iteration of being between; each showed up before we ever had a conscious understanding of what it meant to have anyone show up.
Since the beginning of time, humanity has shown up. You have shown up. I have shown up and and I dare to say that showing up is one of the most powerful gifts one can bestow upon another being.
We show up by choice. We show up by court order. We show up to get paid and we show up with no expectations. We show up by obligation and we show up by a calling. We show up with heartbreak, hearts overflowing, hope, anticipation, remorse, regret, tears…
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