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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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Building a Bridge
There are bridges
family
A Shard
A Shattering Suggestion
transformation
Life Under Water
The dragonfly
naturetrauma
Time Without Pain
Time is precious.
alivenessattention
Growing Skin
I won't prioritize potential over what's here.
alivenessrelationshipsattention
Swimming Through an Avalanche
The Blackness of Darkness 2
familytraumagrief
The Quartet of Sovereignty
The Devout and the Profane
creativityalivenessrelationships
Before Touching the Ground
First you build the castle in the sky
embodiment
The Crushing Blow
War, occupation, exile, poverty,
familytraumarelationships
Devotion to Attention
At so many points in my healing,
attentiontransformationembodiment
The Inner Core
Beneath the layers of coping,
traumaalivenessembodiment
A Wild Man
A wild man enjoys climbing a tree.
alivenessembodimenttransformation
Eye of the Mountain