When I floated with the endangered purple coral in Uluwatu, I felt present for the first time in years. 
 I asked myself what I was working for, if not this?
            Each adventure peeled back a new layer of me,  
til I realized it was the strangers who knew me best.
 That's why I moved to New York.
            Creativity has a sort of kinetic energy to it, moving through vessels until it's expressed. Paris passed some along to me. 
 Locked down at home, I learned this energy never dies—it changes forms. An infinite gift.