Eye of the Mountain
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Writing about breaking into reality.
Essays, memoir and poetry on attention, grief, belonging and aliveness. What does it take to live beyond survival and projection? How do we move towards participation and thriving?
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Life Under Water
The dragonfly
Swimming Through an Avalanche
The Blackness of Darkness 2
Liberating the Parentified Child
I was made responsible for the emotional functioning of people who had power over me.
The Crushing Blow
War, occupation, exile, poverty,
The Inner Core
Beneath the layers of coping,
Piercing the Stone
The Gentlest of Violence
Boundless Compassion
Traces adult reaching and self-separation back to childhood failures of presence and attunement. It tests compassion at the point where another person cannot receive care without retaliating, asking how love can remain boundless while behavior meets a limit.
Prolog
Introduces the lifelong spiral of terror at the center of the memoir, then marks the story’s turn from decoding and surviving trauma toward the possibility of an ordinary life.
The Endless Reaching
Refuses to reduce persistent longing for unavailable people to pathology. After examining attachment, disappointment, and fantasy, the essay asks whether reaching can remain an expression of love without becoming a demand for return.
Natural Intelligence
Uses biological invasion, germination, metamorphosis, and flight to describe transformation triggered by disruptive contact. Pain and fear become signals that an emerging form of life has exceeded the nervous system’s old boundaries.
Less Effort
Describes healing’s progression from deliberate regulation to embodied competence, where accumulated practice reduces inner noise and right action requires less force.
Continue Here - The Arc of Becoming
Develops capacity as the practical bridge between trauma insight and participation in life. Presence, graded contact, and repetition rebuild a nervous system until balance and choice require less protective tension.