Love is not a word
we polish and place on shelves.
It is breath.
It is how we answer.
How we soften.
How we stand.
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We say it so often that it can begin to sound like a cliché: there is no time like the present. Yet the older I get, the more I realize how radical that statement truly is.
So much of our lives is spent anywhere but here.
We replay conversations that have already ended.
We rehearse worries that have not yet arrived.
We plan, predict, regret, imagine, brace, and ruminate.
And all the while, the actual moment we are living slips quietly by
In behavioral science, choice architecture describes how environments shape our decisions—often more powerfully than intention or willpower. What is visible, convenient, and repeated quietly becomes the default. Over time, our lives begin choosing for us.
My spiritual practice has taught me something similar:
We do not live our values once; we live them through the choices our lives make easy.
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Let our collective call—to support, to protect, to care for each other—be the testament to his greatest sacrifice.
Let us honor him not only in words, but in action.
With love and solidarity to the family of Brother Peretti, to Minneapolis, to this nation, and to the world—as we move together through our shared grief and our collective healing
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We are called into sacred communion—not as separate beings, but as one people. Trust is built through action. Change emerges through lived belief. This is faith made visible. Faith in motion.
In honoring the legacy of Dr. King, we are invited—collectively—to embody the principles he lived: love, selflessness, courage, and sacrifice. When we stand together as one people, our voices are not only heard—they are realized.
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Roots and Early Influences
I grew up in southwestern Kentucky, deep in the Bible Belt, raised within the Southern Baptist tradition. Religion and spirituality have been the cornerstones of my life for as long as I can remember.
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