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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Rock Bottom Has a Key Hole
Addresses the point at which effort, money, and familiar strategies stop producing change. Rock bottom becomes not a sealed floor but a lock whose key is embodied contact with pain, need, and reality.
Stuck in an Inhale
Uses the held breath as an image of a survival identity that no longer needs to be maintained, inviting the body to exhale and let an obsolete self end.
Shedding Skin
Uses an animal shedding its skin to describe identity change that cannot be forced. The old form tears only when it is ready, making transformation both organic and persistently disorienting.
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.
Tip of the Spear
Imagines a child standing at the leading edge of an ancestral formation, supported by parents and generations behind him. The poem reframes individual courage as the visible point of a much larger inheritance.
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.
The Role of a Mother
Defines mothering as the capacity to remain present with pain without abandoning, fixing, or becoming overwhelmed by it—and considers how that capacity is internalized.
The Splinter
Turns a childhood splinter and the compensating limp that followed into a model of trauma: avoiding one localized pain distorts the entire body until healing requires returning weight and attention to the original wound.
Fragile Shoots
Asks the reader to protect the first fragile signs of renewed desire and play, especially when emerging aliveness still feels awkward, impractical, or easy to crush.
Venomous Voice
Dissects the moral superiority hidden inside compulsive giving, showing how generosity becomes poisonous when it is used to purchase identity, leverage, or repayment.
Porous
Considers the body as a porous, changing field whose boundaries expand with movement and perception, replacing the fantasy of a fixed self with participation in an environment.