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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Beneath the Skin
Beneath the skin there are no words.
The Student Becomes the Teacher
I'll make your treasures richer.
The Author in Authority
I'm your reflection
Piercing the Stone
The Gentlest of Violence
Levitating Light
Builds a constellation of qualities—from presence and groundedness through grief, play, intimacy, and service—whose accumulation sketches a life of integrated, ordinary aliveness.
The “Heart” Beat
Challenges the reduction of the heart to a pump by tracing the circulatory system’s vortices, neurons, reciprocity, and distributed intelligence. Biological complexity becomes an argument for receiving and giving as simultaneous forms of participation.
The Moments
Addresses someone physically present but psychologically living in the future. The speaker grieves their unavailable shared moment in advance, imagining a later grief that will arrive only after the relationship is gone.
Love with a No
Addresses an anxious loved one with care while refusing enmeshment, separating genuine love from worry, unsolicited help, emotional debt, and mutual self-abandonment.
Togetherness
Dissolves the isolated self into weather, matter, motion, and shared attention, imagining belonging as participation in the continuous movement of the world.
Coming Alive
Defines becoming as accumulated practice rather than arrival. Repetition makes pain more precise and attention more stable until fear, uncertainty, and reality can be met with courage, rhythm, and presence.
Qualities of Balance
Defines balance as responsive freedom rather than rigid stability: a quiet center able to move, hold contradiction, belong, and correct without grasping or force.
The Shape of Pain
Follows pain as a spiral thread connecting apparently separate wounds across time. Rather than mere alarm, pain becomes a line through the labyrinth that grief can follow back toward integration and home.