I almost didn't want to believe what I was hearing my soul whisper to me. How could I possibly let this entire dream go? Something I had painstakingly (and joyfully) worked so hard for & manifested into my reality?

It was a typical morning in the Neyers Beach House -- the dream home on the water I had sketched out from my imagination, hired a custom builder to bring to life, organized & decorated into a personal sanctuary, and was now the beautiful space I had the privilege to wake up in every morning and go to bed in every evening.

Today I am feeling reflective & inspired to write to you about looking at those pivotal times when the trajectory of our lives completely changed and how that maps onto the larger story of our lives. Steve Jobs, one of the co-founders of technology giant Apple, was known to have said: "You can't connect the dots looking forward. You can only connect them looking backward."