Instructions for living a life: Pay attention. Be astonished. Tell about it. – Mary Oliver Mary Oliver, the quiet bard of the marshlands, slipping truths between cattails and crow calls. Her words aren’t just a…
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You Were Never Meant to Live an Unstoried Life
A Mythic Invitation for the One Who’s Ready to Remember Somewhere between the rituals we forgot and the algorithms we obey, a quiet knowing stirs in your chest. It speaks in the voice of ancient…
Radical Inside Change = Ritual + Rewriting
In every old tale worth retelling, there comes a moment when the hero finds themself circling the same path—through dark woods, across barren fields, inside a maze of mirrors. No dragon, no villain, just the…
bring it forth or be destroyed
A Friday Dispatch from the Edge of Becoming “If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you…
stepping into the rainbow: on adventure, inner child, and the rogue path
I pulled a card from the Osho Zen deck for my evening ritual. What came to the surface was Adventure. A small child, back to the viewer, stepping into a forest glowing with radiant rainbow…
how do you know if you’re really changing?
“Even this journaling is habitual…”“Are these loops who I am?”“How do you break out?” This morning, while the coffee was still ritual-warm in my hand and the fog of sleep hadn’t yet burned off, a…
The Cut-Up Machine
A poet walks into a Parisian café carrying scissors and a stack of yesterday’s newspapers. He slices through headlines, obituaries, war reports, and weather blurbs, scattering words like tarot cards across the table. He isn’t…
Take a look around
Take a Look Around https://youtu.be/o3UHMV3jrZk?si=D51rRvCqONyh8U6W Scene One: A Cultural Snapshot in Sonic Form The year is 2000. Nu metal is in full bloom. TRL dominates after-school hours. Everything feels like it’s accelerating—dot-coms rising, falling, and…
Where the Mind Ends and the World Begins: Thinking Like a Spider
Where the Mind Ends and the World Begins: Thinking Like a Spider There’s an old tale told among the Ashanti of West Africa about Anansi, the trickster spider-god who brought stories to the world. He…
Unraveling into a tangle of hyperlinks, associative thinking and the metaphysics of writing
Following the thread of this article, I’m curious to explore some ideas about what we would need to do to change our thinking about writing. What would our thinking have to change to? In reply…
Still Waters or Stirred Reflections?
On the Difference Between Self-Help and Personal Development There’s a Zen tale about a young seeker who asks the master, “How can I become enlightened?” The master gestures to a nearby bucket of water and…
Voice, Ink, and the Shape of Thought
This morning, I traded my keyboard for my voice. Instead of typing out my morning pages, I hit record and let my thoughts spill out in a stream-of-consciousness monologue. What came out wasn’t just more—it…
The Rogue Learner’s Creed
You don’t need permission to learn.No gatekeepers. No credentials. No institutions dictating the syllabus of your mind. Curiosity is your compass.Books, podcasts, experiments, rabbit holes—the world is your library, and your education is a lifelong…
What is thinking?
This seems like a basic question, but the more I looked into it, the more twisted it became. When you’re thinking about your thinking, who’s doing the thinking? What makes this question particularly twisted is…
The Art and Science of Meta-Learning: How to Teach Yourself Anything
In an era where knowledge is abundant but attention is scarce, the ability to teach yourself anything is perhaps the most valuable skill you can cultivate. This is the domain of meta-learning—learning how to learn….
A Journey Between Moments: The Art of Interstitial Journaling
blogger’s note: this week, i’ve started my journey into Interstitial Journaling, but with a twist. if you google Interstitial Journaling, you’ll mostly find it associated with the productivity crowd. i’ve tweaked the idea into a…
The Thin Veil Between Revenge and Justice
blogger’s note: on my train ride home from London, i started watching Halo on Netflix. i’ve never played the game, but I knew of it. one line about the thin line between justice and revenge…
The Inner Life: Intellectual Activity as a Natural Good
In a world that often measures value in terms of productivity and tangible outcomes, the life of the mind can seem like an indulgence, something reserved for scholars, professionals, or those with the luxury of…
Geranium: The Scent of Balance and Renewal
Sunday mornings are made for slow rituals. The scent drifts through the room in delicate waves, curling into the corners, wrapping around the edges of the morning like a soft shawl. Geranium—earthy, floral, steady—fills the…
Why Don’t the Dead Speak?
We’ve been waiting. For centuries, we’ve held séances, whispered into mirrors, and left tape recorders running in empty rooms. We’ve built entire religions around the promise that death is not the end, that something lingers…