How do you write a piece that has been camping in your subconscious for a minute?

Like a hot minute.

Perception is reality.

This is not the first time that you have heard me use this. Credit to its...

I have been writing this piece in my head for over two decades.

Since the moment I met her.

Before I was ever her learner, I knew who she was.
She was the coach.

The kind whose presence entered the ...

Today, I get to write a piece that has lived in my brain, my heart, and my gut for as long as I can remember.

I’ve written many versions of this to arrive here, drafts shaped by a younger me.
The one ...