A LETTER TO MACKENZIE ON HER 12TH BIRTH DAY
I’ve never known someone to exude unadulterated light and love the way you do, Mackenzie Sage. You live your life with such clarity, presence and joy. You’re incredibly empathetic, though matter of fact and practical in every way. Your heart is always wide open and you recognise beauty in everyone and everything. You wouldn’t know how to judge someone, even if taught - that level of egotism and separation doesn’t have a home in your pure and gracious spirit. It’s truly magic to witness your ability to connect with everyone and anything and hold no preconceived barriers or limitations about them.
Your ability to accept things as they are enlists you as one of the worlds great Masters of Yoga. A spiritual Being with an awakened heart without any effort at all. Many people spend their entire lives (sometimes lifetimes) seeking the clarity and awareness you were born with. For this reason alone, you are, forever, my greatest teacher.
Your capacity to forgive and move on is inspiring and I’m constantly under your guiding wing, relearning how to live life in this human form. How profound that it took you, in this way, this body, these challenges, these circumstances to show me the way. I thank you, always, for sacrificing your Divine freedom to be my teacher in this life together as Mother (student) and Daughter (teacher).
Your resilience astounds me. Your ‘out of this world’ skills and talents surprise and entertain me. Your honesty and transparency is something worth celebrating. You are so goddam funny. At times I’ve wondered if you truly understand just how funny are, but lately, I’ve seen your deliberate attempts to bring laughter to dull situations and you are always on point. Your belly laugh is infectious and I love, most of all, how your entire face lights up when you capture your audience in hysteria.
You need nothing more than your own light to entertain your Self. Music is your greatest muse. Forever seeking an array of tunes to fill the air, I love that I have a personal juke box on hand.
I hope that you continue to live your best life, loving conversations with strangers, blowing people’s minds with your date trick, smashing sweet potato chips, diplomatically answering questions that would otherwise create divide, requesting cheesy toasties for ‘special dinners’, demanding bumblebee tickles, smoking me with your sass, and making us laugh.
Your simple, Soul driven way of life is something I dream more people lean into. And something I’m constantly striving for. With you leading the way, I know I’ll get there someday.
Happy 12th birthday, you legend. You come from some far away fantasy land where your Orb of light is bigger than anything I’ve known. I know you’re a gift from some high Source and power, here to change the world in some small (or large) way. You matter in this world and I know how much of a difference you make x
