Rooted in Now: Rising Beyond the Illusion
- DL Holloman
- Aug 26
- 1 min read
She doesn’t flinch.

While the world burns its illusions—of separation, sameness, and surface-level truth—she stays rooted. Not in resistance, but in reverence. Her gaze is steady, not to escape the chaos, but to witness it with eyes that remember.
This is not the gaze of fear. It’s the gaze of awakening.
In a time when recycled beliefs parade as progress, she chooses presence. She watches the collapse of “same old stuff” not with despair, but with quiet knowing. The kind of knowing that comes from lifetimes of remembering. The kind of knowing that whispers: You’ve been here before. You came to rise.
To be rooted in now is to stop outsourcing truth. To rise beyond illusion is to stop being a stranger to yourself.
This is the moment we reclaim our gaze. Not to judge the world, but to invite it inward. To rise as one. To remember as many.
This is Stranger on an Elevator—not just a story, but a mirror. A portal. A poetic rebellion against forgetting.
So, if you feel the tremble of truth beneath your feet, If you sense the invitation in the collapse, If your soul is whispering, “It’s time,” Then welcome. You’re not alone.
You’re not a stranger anymore.
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