On this page are some of my own words, inspired by life, created to inspire life and all its meaningful possibilities into manifestation. Here, you’ll find poetry, nonfiction, creative + experimental nonfiction, short stories, and embodied poetry. Please enjoy.
Pain body, pleasure body.
“How can I claim the pleasure without the pain? It is the pain, or the absence of sensation, that eventually makes sensation, and even pleasure, available for embrace. It is this polarity that is the foundation for life's inherent music.”
Shadows and The Wisdom Weaver
A Photo Essay Collection
Thoughts on life, death, and wisdom-weaving. Originally composed in September 2022.
Love as a sacred practice
“It is so clear that any instance of hate is a call back to love. It is the sharpest, loudest, most reverberant signal.”
On Grace, Embodiment, and Being Divinely Human
“Because I may never feel quite perfect, but may always hold the desire to achieve perfection deeply within me, the process of intentionally living in grace is upheld as a tenet of the Self I am becoming through this process of shedding — of transformation.”
What does it mean to be "love"?
“And so as I reflect on the journal entry that prompted this cognition — and metacognition — I think of love as a kind of knowledge.”