hilove.one
I am very happy to say that as a father, a teacher, writer, artist and a life long learner, I am able to share my passion for love in all things through hilove.one.
Watch the video above to check out the intro to hilove.one. This character, I hope, will, eventually make it’s way around the world, through video, poetry and books.
Please take a moment to be in the moment.
I appreciate you coming here today to be and read what hilove.one is all about.
— Kevin Lee MacKay
creator of hilove.one | just be.
The Moment Just Before
How a Book of Poetry Became the Heart of hilove.one
The Moment Just Before is a book of poetry written by Kevin Lee MacKay over three years — a meditation on time, presence, and love. What began as a deeply personal creative journey grew into something larger: the foundation for hilove.one, a platform that brings together poetry, art, voice, and storytelling.
Each poem in The Moment Just Before explores what it means to pause — to live in that space between thought and action, stillness and motion, memory and possibility. Through this practice of noticing, Kevin discovered a new way to connect with others: through shared experience, through seeing and being seen.
hilove.one was born from this realization. It continues the spirit of the book — blending poetic reflection with modern media to create films, voice-overs, art, and stories that remind us of our shared humanity.
Today, The Moment Just Before stands as both an origin story and an open invitation:
to slow down, to listen, and to remember that love — in all its forms — begins right here, in the moment just before.
hilove.one
Just Be | The Emblem
“The shape of stillness. The outline of being. The quiet that love makes when it no longer tries.”
This symbol — bold in red, curved like breath —
is the pause after the ache.
A bracket not of logic, but of life.
It doesn’t hold code or calculation.
It holds you.
A single shape.
Abstract, yet deeply human —
like a side profile softened by moonlight,
or the riverbend that guides water home.
Placed against black —
it speaks to contrast, to mystery, to the fertile dark we so often avoid.
But within that darkness, it glows —
a reminder that presence is enough.
To Just Be is not passive.
It is a radical act of return.
To the moment. To the breath. To the self beneath performance.
This is the call of hilove.one:
To live from love, not lack.
To rest into being.
And to remember that before we build anything…
we must learn to just be.