


I’m Louise (but you may call me Lou).
I started writing to leave a mark in case I don’t survive. Now I write to live.
What do you need today?
"Holy shit, I’m alive. We take this aliveness for granted, unaware of what is required to maintain it."from Holy Shit, I’m Alive
"Facing my mortality has revealed how much of my life I spent curating myself into smallness. Living now has become my spiritual practice, my rebellion."from Life is not empty
"There is nothing you can say that will solve it. But, there is much you can say that will keep someone company inside of it."from Fixing the Unfixable
"I hope I can find the beauty. I pray to surrender in wonder and keep my eyes open to what life wants to show me."from How do you know what happens to you isn’t good?
"I wept from the strangeness of return. From the terror of starting anew. From the defiant choice to love this life anyway."from The other side of grief
"I’m learning to stop grasping for control and lean back into complete free fall."from Embracing Free Fall
"I am not dying from this. But it’s given me some peace to think that we are all on a path toward death, that we build beautiful lives that dissolve into beautiful nothingness."from Cancer Meditations
"I want to create a place where mortality and joy sit side by side."from The Live Now Club
"Ultimately, there is no one on the planet who can love me better than I can love myself."from I Love Lou
"Every day, I return to this moment, wrestling with the humbling truth that binds us together - both small and scared, both fighting fiercely against the tide."from Threads of Survival
"I hope I go like the fig, sweet and full, bursting at the seam, feeding whatever comes next."from And still the figs ripen
"I dream the sleep that sleeps in me. The lie lies still. Awake within. Who dreams this dream?"from The Butterfly Dream

We take this aliveness for granted
Dancing in a cloud of bubbles on the Fourth of July, overwhelmed by the joyousness of being here at all.
Read →Mortality and joy, side by side.