Email sent 9.15.2024 | 1 yr, 9 months, 5 days

Good Morning Sunshines,

Well my friends, we’ve done it! After a year of waking with the unwavering drive to bring this project to completion, many solitary nighttime hours, loaded tears, conversations and collective edits.

I am so happy to introduce you all to our special place for memorializing, sharing, growing and celebrating all that is, and was and what will be. All the things.

www.beautifulmiles.com.
(if you are reading this on his website, then obviously you have arrived ;)

Before you dive in, it’s important that you know this site is meant to be a beginning and an evolving document that will continue to change over time. The intention is to not only celebrate a gorgeous human, but to have a place to be inspired to share stories, photos and art encouraged by the world still vibrating in his wake. The shared ripples as we all wade through the water of this complicated place we call living. Whether you know Miles and our family or we are yet to meet, the exploration of heartbreaking love is here, we’re all in the same pond, however we chose to swim in it.

There’s a lot to explore so buckle up buckaroos:

Grow : Dedicated to the story of soil transformation and the landing page to host the growing GPS map.
Share : All previous emails have been copied here to act as a memoir and a place for future resources and any new correspondance..
Dance : Celebratory space to add updates on Miles’ dance scholarship.
Create : * Page under construction * Get your motors running as I will be coming back to you all to ask for submissions soon.
Love : * Page under construction * Engines still revving, submission style landing page for future images and stories of love, soon to be added here.

Feedback is welcomed and encouraged, this is all new for us, every single part of it.

Hot off the presses: A special and magnificent thank you to all who have contributed to Miles’ dance scholarship. We’re admittedly still working on the flow of distribution as this fund is so very loaded with love and intention. In the meantime, I received this message yesterday from Miles’ beloved dance teacher Bernie and will be adding to the Dance page on the site soon.

The first recipients of the scholarship fund Julian, Cooper and Jalen are all thriving, as is our dear Bella! With the help of the scholarship, and while still in high school, the boys were blessed to attend an intensive summer dance intensive at UCLA. This message just too gorgeous to hold onto today and is burning a hole in my Sunday morning tea time:

“Julian leaves for UCLA on Thursday... he's majoring in Dance! Because he went to that intensive last summer... it literally changed his life and gave him this AMAZING opportunity 🙏🏽 Miles is working his magic ✨️

Cooper and Jalen are going to the JC, and are each teaching their own classes & assisting with the companies at the studio. They are both majoring in physiology, and Jalen is also minoring in dance!

The 3 boys have a tearful speech at the last show in June. They thanked Miles for his inspiration and leadership... and for being able to "feel him" when they dance. It was pretty beautiful and emotional. They/we were all weeping. So special 💓

Bella is dancing and it is so wonderful! I think it's healing and a way to stay connected to Miles in real time. Every time. He's definitely in the studio, and it's the most amazing feeling and energy to experience ✨️”

More to come!

I am laughing a bit at myself this morning as I promised I was not going to write too much and let Miles’ website speak for itself. And instead I am writing too much and have so much more to say. Words words words words tripping over more words.

So I leave you with this, someone else's words of great brilliance. A dear friend shared this David Foster Walllace speech with me a few weeks back, assuming I was already familiar with this speech since it’s been around since 2005. Living under a rock, it was new to me, so I am hoping to share this with a few more fellow rock dwellers and get us all up to speed.

This is Water by David Foster Wallace