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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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 Path of Fear
Contrasts a life organized around fear with one oriented by love, arguing that greater perception enlarges reality and loosens pain’s authority.
Language Fails
Places embodied contact beyond representation, arguing that touch can communicate a depth of recognition and repair that images and language cannot hold.
Baseline Human
Contrasts ordinary regulation with spiritual or performative ideals, proposing stillness, presence, embodiment, and mutuality as signs of being healed enough to live.
Precious
Defines valuing as a quality of sustained attention: holding gently, becoming curious, protecting without grasping, and allowing delight. What is precious becomes vivid through the manner in which it is attended to.
How to Do 100 Years of Transformational Healing in One Year
A deliberately exaggerated, darkly comic twenty-step guide to accelerated healing. Beneath the clickbait, it inventories the destabilization, grief, relational risk, embodiment, and relentless practice involved in remaking a life.
Adolescence, the Test of Love
Frames adolescence as love’s test: whether a parent can tolerate a child’s separation, defiance, and independent identity without withdrawing connection.
Faking of the Faking
Examines the recursive loss of authenticity when imitation copies imitation and performance replaces contact with an original impulse. Form survives while lived meaning becomes progressively hollow.
The Blame Wrapper
Interprets narcissistic blame as armor built around unbearable childhood shame. Confidence and control form a polished outer castle whose accusations keep vulnerability, accountability, and grief from reaching the abandoned child inside.
Dating Profiles
Satirizes dating-app self-presentation by making projection, maternal longing, rejection practice, and domestic expectations explicit. The joke exposes how profiles market fantasies instead of introducing real people.
Facing the Void
Stages surrender at the cliff where the former self and its guarantees end. Leaping becomes an act of love and faith: freedom lies not in securing a landing but in no longer requiring one.
Emotional Rape
Abuse doesn’t always leave bruises. The deepest scars I carry came from manipulation, gaslighting, and domination that no one could see. This is my attempt to name the tactics of invisible abuse so they lose their power.