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.

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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