Seeing and appreciating things for what they really are, not in the material sense, but in the value they bring — in the life giving, creative, and energetic principle that they exhibit day in and day out — I’m starting to understand, is a really powerful way to connect with health, happiness, and even eternity.

Now is an opportunity to re-evaluate our situations. What we’ve been doing with our lives, where we’ve been taking our lives, how we’ve been treating our lives and what meaning we’ve been giving to our lives.

With COVID-19 we are going through something practically no living soul has ever experienced. It may be forging new realities, and could place us at the edge of a big change —politically, economically, culturally, and spiritually. What this will look like nobody really knows, but there are some things we can glean about the emerging future.

I’ve grown a lot on this trip. I learned things about myself, about others, and about the world that I never imagined. I experienced a new realm of possibilities that exist within me. And I set out on a new mission to keep on making greater connections – ones that evolve our world, our communities, and our lovely human beings.

Lying somewhere between the digital and the physical is a potential substrata, which is neither completely digital or physical, conceptual or concrete, yet it ties us all together. We can think of it as a shared human essence, a collective understanding of what it means to be alive, and what it means to be with others.