Finding My Secret Power

A guest post McKeany wrote for Joshua Doležal's Inner Life publication, framed as a conversation between his present-day self and his eighteen-year-old self. The eighteen-year-old marvels at the iPhone, asks why they're here, and the present-day self walks him through the unexpected turns — band, divorce, falling for his wife on OkCupid, becoming a stepdad, his daughter Em's cerebral palsy — that taught him the secret power he didn't know he had: the capacity to stay present with what life actually hands you.