Welcome! I am so glad you have decided to take time out of your day to be here and to be now. Thank you for being present with me and my writing.
I started blogging in September 2016. My posts were mostly raw and full of all the emotions I was experiencing. I didn’t share that blog with anyone until early 2025. It felt too raw and too personal. It still does. That is why I’ve created this new blog. I am ready to share my writing with a broader audience. I plan to take some of the posts from my first blog and share them with you here. I also may create posts specifically for this blog.
Again I thank you for joining me on this journey.
You are here. You are now.
About my URL
JeSuisIciHereIAm.wordpress.com
Je suis ici. Here I am.
Translated from the French
I am here. Here I am.
I felt moved to have part of my blog URL in French because my original personal blog URL was all in French. So I wanted to honor that start.
But I didn’t want to have the whole thing in French because I wanted people to understand at least part of the URL. And if I had done that second part in French it would have become ridiculously long!
JesuisiciJesuismaintenant
Je suis ici Je suis maintenant
Nope!
Je suis ici. Here I am.
Popped into my head on a walk. It just felt right. I liked the rhythm of the words. Yes I knew the second part wasn’t a translation of the first. But “Je suis ici. I am here” didn’t feel right.
I shared the blog URL with my dad and he immediately said: Oh like “Sam I am” and I thought: Sure, yes. But I didn’t really get it and it took a day or two before it finally clicked, oh actually that is the precise rhythm and cadence of that line from Dr. Seuss (Green Eggs and Ham)!!
I am Sam
Sam I am
I am here
Here I am
Thanks to my father, I finally understood why I felt drawn to that phrasing. It’s because it felt familiar! 💜
Now on to why I picked my blog title to be different from the URL. Initially, I did consider having my URL be: “I am here I am now”, but that was already taken, and I liked having French in the URL! So it worked out!
The origin of this saying:
Since early 2025, I’ve been saying that phrase (I am here I am now) to ground myself when I felt extremely anxious or triggered. It has brought my mind and my body back from the past or the future into the present moment.
“I am here. I am now.” has been a meaningful, daily part of my life and will likely remain so, because we will always be drawn into the past or the future, and we often need to be brought back to the present moment.
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We are here. We are now.
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