Tomorrow marks session number four for LIMBO. For this next group of workshops, I want to think about character creation and the various ways in which we can employ character to occupy and transform the world around us. What do we learn from creating character? How can we make use of these learnings as we engage with the world around us? What insights can we gain from the act of creating characters and interacting with them?

Transformation is an attractive theme in this season of uncertainty. We don’t know what comes next. We don’t know where we are going. We don’t know how things will unfold. Even the world around us is filled with uncertainty. We find ourselves in a world where conflict and wars awaken traumas and make us even more uncertain and fearful.

Perhaps the space we are creating is a temporary escape–an ephemeral space where we can immerse in something else other than what is going on outside. For a while, we are taken away from the worries and the pressures and the stress and we can be here together in space where it is safe to just be as we are. We are in Now.

I think about this as I prepare and I think too about words like miracle, life, living and now. None of the doctors I’ve spoken to wants to speak in certainties. And so, I think of how the true miracle is that I am alive right now. Life is the miracle. Now is the miracle.

It’s from this knowledge that I can gather the strength that I need for the work that I want to do. I want to carry hope with me because the world around us is chaotic and hope is the one thing that will carry us through the uncertainty of the road we are all traveling.

My thoughts, for now, are unfinished. But I hope the sentiment shines through. I hope that you who read this may find for yourself a place of strength and hope for the road ahead.

Blessings and peace to you who read this.