Firefly Scout Field Notes

This is where I share field notes from the work of navigating a complex, heart-led life, blending personal experience with practical insight.

You’ll find thoughtful essays, practical frameworks, and experience-based guidance — rooted in real life, nervous-system awareness, and pattern noticing.

These aren’t personal diary entries or quick takes. They’re reflections meant to help you orient, understand what’s happening beneath the surface, and move forward with more clarity and ease.

Take what’s useful. Leave the rest.

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The Things We Carry

A couple weeks ago, I took my youngest son to a check-up for a congenital condition he had surgery for in the first year of his life. It was repairable and everything has been improving in the four years since. So I wasn’t too worried, but there is that lingering “what if” until you get the okay.

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Living Bravely

The theme of the week has been brave and all the different ways we can be brave.

The biggest kinds of brave are the ones that you face every day. The choices you make everyday in how you show up in the world.

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