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The Labyrinth’s Road to Confluence The ocean calls each morning — a gentle whisper inviting us to leave the mark of God upon the sand. We go not out of duty, but because to stay away would be to deny the call He placed in our hearts. With rake in hand, and a fire poker […]

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Maybe: A Lesson in Letting Go The sunset found us on the road home, painting the journey with a quiet sense of inevitability.  The drive back to Galveston was, for the most part, uneventful. We got a later start than expected — life on Sovereignty Ranch has a way of filling every hour — but […]

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Blood streamed down the hunter’s face, his companion holding him upright between the earth and the sky. Life on the ranch is a fickle teacher — serene in one breath, sudden and severe in the next.  This week at Sovereignty Ranch, two gatherings share the same ground — a band of Canadian deer hunters here for […]

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When the sun rises over Sovereignty Ranch, it’s a different kind of sun. Its light doesn’t merely illuminate — it anoints. It drapes across the hills, casting gentle rays that break into prisms of color, blessing everything in their path. This is God’s Country, where the mountains stand tall as sentinels, guarding the land and those […]

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She said it the way one might mention the weather—inevitable, already decided by something larger than either of us. “We’re going to volunteer at Sovereignty Ranch for the fall festival.” It wasn’t a question. It was a statement of purpose. Sovereignty Ranch—tucked into the hills of Bandera, Texas—was founded in 2021 as a sanctuary for […]

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Each morning, before the sun rises, the world offers us a choice—to move with its rhythm, or to forget we ever had one. For most, the day begins in a blur.The alarm hums, the phone lights up, and the mind sprints before the body even wakes.We rush toward something unseen, hoping to catch up with […]

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Adi and I set out on a walk through the quiet streets of Washington, D.C. The air was crisper than back home on the Gulf. I miss that ole’ island. Like a friend who knows all my moods—the smell of salt, the steady hum of the tide, the gulls that never ask for much, only to be noticed. “Let’s find a labyrinth,” Adi said. “A labyrinth? Here? In D.C.?” “The city is full of them. Follow me.” So we walked. Through streets too empty for the Capitol dome standing just beyond the trees. The kind of quiet that feels rehearsed. […]

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The Orient Express has always been a stage for stories. Agatha Christie made it famous through mystery; now, nearly a century later, another slim volume is shaping its mythology—Quietude: The Wisdom of Rumi, a novella so slight it can be finished between one station and the next, yet so resonant it lingers long after the last page. On a late spring evening, as the train hums eastward from Paris, the dining and club cars gleam with polished wood and golden lamps. Roses bloom in crystal vases. A pianist unfurls the first delicate measures of a Ravel nocturne. It is here […]

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The island is quiet in the mornings. I hear the fountain gurgling beside me, the breeze just strong enough to soften the weight of the Texas heat. After two fast-paced weeks in Vegas—working with some truly wonderful people—Adi and I finally get to slow down. And in the stillness, I’ve noticed something subtle but certain: I’m changing. There was a time when the stage was everything—where the joy of the crowd, the lights, the pulse of performance filled me up. And while I still love what I do, something deeper has started to take root. These days, I find myself […]

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The Gulf’s spirit swirled ominously with two hurricanes, Marco and Laura, as they danced their way towards Galveston. Adi and I, new residents of this coastal enclave, found ourselves unexpectedly cast into the narrative of the storm’s path. Untethered from news and anchored in our naivety, we received forewarning through anxious calls and texts from family who reminded us of the world outside our peace. Our seasoned neighbors, well-versed in the art of hurricane bracing, prepped with a calmness I admired yet struggled to mirror. Galveston, a place where the echoes of past tempests speak of survival, reminded us of […]

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