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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Odonata
Takes the dragonfly’s metamorphosis from underwater nymph to airborne adult as an image of surrender so complete that an old world—and the self adapted to it—must disappear.
A Brush with Death
Recounts an early climbing partnership and a fatal encounter with risk that altered the author’s relationship to mortality, responsibility, and the mountains. Adventure’s beauty is held beside the irreversible consequences of inexperience.
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.
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.
The Eye of the Mountain
On a vision quest, I found a symbol that has guided me ever since: the eye of the mountain. This is the story of facing silence, fear, and hunger — and discovering the myths that shape our lives.