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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Crossing the Desert
Describes the exposed middle of healing after survival strategies have been relinquished but no new identity or capacity has solidified. The desert measures progress precisely because there is no familiar shelter left.
Nothing
A spare ontological meditation on being and nonbeing, testing whether emptiness is truly absence or the open condition from which experience appears.
Collapsing Spacetime
Compresses cosmic scale—light-years, stars, deep time, and trillions of cells—into the shared immediacy of a single conscious moment. Vastness becomes intimate through attention to here and now.
Seeing and Believing
Uses tightly closed eyes as an image of defensive certainty: refusing light protects inherited belief from corrective experience. The poem asks what it costs to preserve a worldview by excluding what could change it.
Invitation to Dance
Imagines growth as contact between already-whole centers rather than completion by another person. Attraction, rhythm, boundaries, and mutual responsiveness turn relationship into an invitation rather than a rescue.
The Alignment Model
Human suffering arises when our perception and nervous system fall out of alignment with reality. Pain signals this misalignment but our culture encourages avoidance through performance, stimulation and distraction. These strategies reduce perception and deepen the friction between ourselves and the world.
Dimensionality Reduction
Examines how trauma compresses a complex, multidimensional self into a narrow set of defensive reactions—and how embodiment restores lost range and choice.
Unreplicable
Pushes through the fear of being only an echo of existing voices toward the recognition that lived embodiment makes every expression singular. Influence does not erase originality when experience reorganizes what is inherited.
Language Fails
Places embodied contact beyond representation, arguing that touch can communicate a depth of recognition and repair that images and language cannot hold.
Constipained
Addresses neglected pain as an inner child whose unmet experience has become a chronic bodily contraction. Compassionate witnessing allows the body to stop bracing around what it once had to hold alone.
Violent Pleasure
Stages joy as a threatening sensation that a trauma-shaped body must learn to tolerate, exposing how even pleasure can provoke resistance when suffering feels safer.
Reducing the Noise
Applies the Weber–Fechner law to perception, nervous-system regulation, and daily life. As background stimulation decreases, subtler signals become legible, allowing sensitivity and choice to replace the need for ever-greater intensity.