Dear Friends,

(May 2025) I’ve been on a deeply personal journey these past several months. It’s taken a toll — physically, emotionally, spiritually. To be clear: I’m not facing anything life-threatening. I have been navigating chronic illness. It doesn’t endanger my life, but it reshapes it in ways that can be hard to describe — and harder still to live through.

I’ve had to slow down, take a breath, and — as Lazaris said in Questions from the Community, Part 5 — “take a step back from wanting it all to be different and understand what is…