On lighthouses
Once again - greetings & salutations, friends and travelers!
It’s been a few minutes since I checked in here and I thank you for the grace while I stepped way. I’ve been busy culminating many things in many spheres of my life. The end of 2024 finds me very happy and healthy indeed; I genuinely hope you can say the same.
If you were reading here before, you will observe both a design refresh and content expansion on this page was one of those tasks. It’s born from a lot of reflection on some really important structures that I have long admired and loved - lighthouses.
On a literal level, lighthouses are physical bastions of safety for water travel. They mark dangerous reefs, passages, and coastlines and help guide ships into safe harbor. The United States has over 1000 of them and, in the times before satellite navigation, helped spare many vessels from destruction and its passengers from injury and death.
On a figurative level, lighthouses can be seen both as something you seek and something to be.
While out on the oceans of life, you will face many different days - some will feature calm seas and clear skies; others, chaotic waves and windy storms. You can look for the lighthouses to provide hope, direction, and a path to safety.
You can also take your turn keeping the light aflame for others to see. I believe that both offering encouragement and exposing danger by being a light is one of the simplest and most important ways we can show up for our friends, our families, and our communities.
We are all navigating through life - together but apart.
How can you choose to be a lighthouse today? Is there someone in particular that you know could benefit? Can you find an opportunity to extend a helping hand to a stranger?
