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Favorite essays…

Death for Life Ritual

9 Jul 2026July 9, 2026
I’m downloading photos of houses being consumed in flames — huge wild oranges and yellows screaming in the black of the night.  I wanna burn this shit to the ground. …
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Riding A Big Change

9 Jul 2026July 9, 2026
What follows is a broad view of transformational processes and how to navigate them; particularly ones that feel like a kind of death.  This is strictly my perspective.  I offer…
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Golden Ponder

8 Jul 2026July 8, 2026
Death Valley National Park, CA February 2023I've been camping here for a few days.  I was in Southern California on business and wanted to take the geographic opportunity afterwards to…
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Is it a coincidence?

7 Jul 2026July 9, 2026
What is coincidence and what do we mean by it?  Everything that is happening now is happening at the same time — co-incidence.  That’s interesting to ponder, but not what…
Favorite essays…

To Be Loved Upon Surviving

7 Jul 2026July 9, 2026
Trigger warning for near death experience. I’m six years old, visiting my grandparents in the suburbs of Chicago. One day I make a new friend. This doesn’t happen very often…
Eventful stories…

Dragon Veil

17 Jun 2026July 9, 2026
Summer, 2014. I am camped at Bunny Flats on Mt. Shasta in northern California.  This is one of the great volcanoes of the “ring of fire” around the Pacific ocean. …
Healing stories…

The curtain falls.

3 May 2020July 6, 2026
May 3, 2020 Trigger warning for brief, non-detailed references to child sexual abuse, demons and trauma. For the last six years, which feels more like 15, I've been getting a…
Eventful stories…

Meeting my Beloved

11 Apr 2019July 8, 2026
Baiona, Spain, February 2018 Driving through the hills trying to find my way somewhere, I pull over to look at the map. I notice the forest here has been partially…
Eventful stories…

Duality Day

17 Jul 2018July 9, 2026
Act I ~ The Awaited Response 8am.  Awake enough to check email.  To help me get into the daytime activities.  Aha!  The email I've been waiting for all week!  Finally…

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