I’m often told that I make people feel welcomed, at ease, and like the most special person in the world for that moment. I believe this is because for me, getting lost in a connection with another person is a profound gift.

I get to feel the world’s weight temporarily roll off my shoulders. I feel myself drop back into my body, permeated with vital energy. I get to feel time shift shape. I get to feel when the moment hits, when vision becomes delirious, delicious saturation.

I want to be caught, or perhaps temporarily held in thrall, by something elusive and unnameable. These moments feel uncommon; they feel precious. I’ve appointed myself their nurturer. So I’m curious — what makes it fit just right, what clicks us into place, what grants us surrender? How did we find ourselves bursting, at this moment, with electric life?

Maybe you like to get lost too and you can relate to finding something otherwise unreachable in the company of another, some dynamism that awakens you more fully in your being