Who am I? The problem of answering starts with the question that seeks to strip down something uniquely formless into a familiar, standardized group of adjectives. Personally, I prefer the less literal approach of pointing toward how one perceives reality – through acts and authentic expression – rather than passively describing it. We are bundles of life experience glued by an inner essence. The changeable and the unchangeable. All the connections we make with people and the world give us concrete form to say we are this or that. But we often forget to zoom out, attaching ourselves to individual parts of the bundle, when instead we are closer to being their sum. A sum whose potential is not only greater than the totality of its individual components, but also unquantifiable (nor should it be unless you wished to reduce it). It is us a communion of the known (conscious, learned, experienced) and the unknown (deeper, unmanifested awareness). When we allow this synthesis to take place, we feel more complete, and we begin to feel the depths of who we are. We let ourselves be, to belong. We learn to purposefully navigate the world – but also to extend and transform it, through acts of compassion and selflessness. The universe is a canvas, and we are one of its countless brushstrokes.