Elena Brower

One day it's that.

One day it's us doing a little bit of yoga.

One day it's us working.

She has a bar across the wall in her bedroom, a ballet bar, and we're doing work on that, strengthening her legs and feet and reaction times.

What's being asked of me is so different day to day, and I find it's the best question to ask myself to get oriented.

Yes.

That's the word.

The pattern is there.

That's the word.

Kid, patient, dad, work, presence, here, presence.

What else do we have to offer really in the end?

Before we started, you said, yeah, we're just sort of, we were talking about how the world just sort of contracts at this point.

And we're so lucky to be in our 50s and not be clamoring to be in our 40s, but actually be aware that we're in a really good, fortunate spot right now to be awake and to know that things are contracting and to actually use the contraction as a focal point to see where, as you said, where we want this to land.

such a beautiful consideration.

And to have that kind of be the the way to think about the the the

offering of presence this is where i want things to land i hope that i will have offered a lot of presence to the people that i love and that i serve to the practices that i serve to the teachings that i serve a lot of presence i hope is where it lands the beautiful thing about that also is presence is not a trait it's not it's a skill

It's totally a skill and a practice.

Yeah.

Because every one of us at some point will meet our end.

And at that point, if we have our wits about us,