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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Encouragement
Offers expansion as a practice of staying rather than rushing toward insight. Truth becomes available when avoidance softens and the self can tolerate direct contact with what it already knows.
Melatonin Regrettably
Interprets sleeplessness as the return of needs ignored during the productive day. Night becomes the only quiet in which an inner child can protest neglect, making insomnia a relational message rather than merely a chemical problem.
Unconscious Competence
Describes practice becoming embodied enough to operate without deliberate control. By refining perception and accumulating capacity, difficult responses can become quiet, automatic, and available even under pressure.
Taking from Abundance
Reverses familiar ideas about generosity by examining giving driven by scarcity and taking made possible by trust, receptivity, and enoughness.
As You Are
Rejects productivity, achievement, and performance as prerequisites for existence, dignity, or acceptance. The poem offers belonging as unconditional contact with the person already here.
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.
Enoughness
Locates enoughness in valuing one’s own time and existence rather than in perfection, recognition, or achievement. From that ground, choice replaces proving and satisfaction no longer depends on external permission.
Alive in a Fantasy
Examines fantasy as an orientation toward unavailable life that preserves intensity while spreading deadness through the present. What feels alive in imagination can become a way of refusing contact with what actually exists.
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.
The Eye and the Mountain
Revisits the project’s central symbol to locate the sought-after guide within the seeker. The external eye and mountain reveal a self made phantom by looking outward for recognition and direction.
Accumulating Inevitability
Reframes change as the quiet accumulation of conditions rather than forceful effort, until what once seemed impossible becomes the natural next movement.
Shut Up and Drive
Uses emergency aviation as a lesson in orientation: when fear and interpretation multiply, return attention to the immediate task of steering one’s actual life.