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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Father to Son
Imagines the initiating words of the father the author needed and the father he hopes to become. It replaces inherited violence with guidance that joins strength, belonging, permission, and accountable love.
Right here, right now, right you
Presence can feel elusive — like something always out of reach. This piece is a playful reminder that the only doorway is the one right in front of us: here, now, and the person you already are.
Yesterday Grief, Today Mischief
Our moods can feel like prisons — grief, scarcity, rejection, emptiness. But they always pass, and when they do, something new arrives: mischief, lightness, curiosity. This piece is about honoring emotional extremes as teachers instead of fighting them.
Talking to a Ghost
For years, when I looked in the mirror, I didn’t just see myself — I saw a presence that haunted me. This piece is about facing that ghost differently, and how learning to speak with it became a way of reclaiming my own reflection.
Breathe in
Uses the cycle of inhaling and exhaling to connect regulation, sensitivity, joy, and growth. Breath becomes the meeting place of conscious intention and unconscious life, allowing vulnerability to function as an opening rather than a threat.
A Taste of Life
This is what aliveness tastes like — the press of the throttle, the rise of the sun, the shiver of being seen. This poem is a hymn to those fleeting, infinite moments when the body remembers joy and the heart no longer flinches. It’s about flying, dancing, loving, forgiving, and realizing that every sensation — even pain — is proof that you’ve come back…