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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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.
The Practice of Being Seen
Traces the movement from performing specialness to tolerating accurate visibility. Being seen becomes a reciprocal practice of dropping spectacle, remaining present, and allowing ordinary reality to carry intimacy.
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.
Rites of Initiation
Reads a life not as gradual progress but as a sequence of thresholds that ended one identity and made another possible. The piece gathers embodied, relational, and spiritual rites of passage into an autobiography of discontinuous becoming.
The Smell of Farts
Uses a couple’s disagreement about whose farts smell worse to play with perception, unverifiable reality, and the comic authority of direct experience—especially when one participant has no sense of smell.
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.
Continue Here - The Arc of Becoming
Healing rarely follows the dramatic narrative we expect. It is not a sudden breakthrough or a heroic transformation. Instead it unfolds gradually as our perception realigns with reality.
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 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.