Redominatelife

Here I Am Now With You and Everything Else

My autobiography would not begin with where I was born.
It would not begin with childhood stories or timelines.

It would begin with one sentence:

“Here I am now with you and everything else.”

That line comes from the opening chapters of Push Past Pause. In many ways, that book is already a mini-autobiography. Not in the traditional sense of dates and milestones, but in mindset. It captures who I am becoming more than who I have been.

“Here I am now” is a statement of ownership.
It accepts the present moment without editing it. The growth. The faults. The discipline. The pauses. The pushing.

“With you” acknowledges connection. I do not build in isolation. My writing exists because there is you. My growth sharpens because there are people around me. Even the silence I work through has witnesses — family, memory, influence.

“And everything else” is the weight and the gift of life combined. The losses. The ambition. The self-doubt. The long writing days. The days that test identity. The belief that destiny is in my hands, even while influence shapes the path.

If someone read only those first chapters of Push Past Pause, they would understand me. They would see a person learning to move again after hesitation. A person choosing clarity over noise. A person deciding that fate is not an accident but a construction.

My autobiography would not try to impress. It would simply present.

Here I am — not perfect, not finished, not paused.

Present.

Until next time .