I started working with a personal trainer today. I ve committed to twice a week for 3 months, though I have a hunch I ll continue past that. It feels really good to invest in personal goals in ways that have growth and accountability built-in! Recently liked “Stay close to anything that makes you glad you are [ ]
I m home, spending time with my friends and family. I also began my annual reflection which has me feeling tremendously grateful for the roller coaster 2025 was, and the incredible people I got to ride it with. Hold your people close and never take them for granted. Happy holidays, and see you in 2026. Recently [ ]
I pick and choose from the resources below to guide my annual reflection every December. I love this exercise. It takes me roughly two weeks, helps me feel closer to what matters to me, and helps me enter the new year with renewed alignment and intention. Resources I like Floored Memory… …Fading Location by Max [ ]
I just completed a week-long meditation retreat with Jhourney where I felt more alive and at peace than I have in a very long time. And a website update! Poetry came up a lot for me during the retreat so I made a page of some poems I like. Recently liked
When you turn the cornerAnd you run into yourselfThen you know that you have turnedAll the corners that are left.
Your great mistake is to act the dramaas if you were alone. As if lifewere a progressive and cunning crimewith no witness to the tiny hiddentransgressions. To feel abandoned is to denythe intimacy of your surroundings. Surely,even you, at times, have felt the grand array;the swelling presence, and the chorus, crowdingout your solo voice. You [ ]
Without knowing we become.Like a word misprouncedor a screen door slammed.Soup slowly burningto the bottom of a pan.First one thing then another.Among other things we are.Desired. Defaced. Discarded.Yet generally ready for more.We are sunlight in a windowand the glass within its frame.We are the long view taken inand a crack, barely visiblein the corner of [ ]
Life is short and I ve shortened mine,in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways,a thousand deliciously ill-advised waysI’ll keep from my children. The world is at leastfifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservativeestimate, though I keep this from my children.For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird.For every loved child, a child broken, bagged,sunk [ ]
My friends, let’s grow up.Let’s stop pretending we don’t know the deal here.Or if we truly haven’t noticed, let’s wake up and notice.Look: Everything that can be lost, will be lost.It’s simple — how could we have missed it for so long?Let’s grieve our losses fully, like ripe human beings,But please, let’s not be so [ ]
I I walk down the street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.I fall in.I am lost I am hopeless.It isn’t my fault.It takes forever to find a way out. II I walk down the same street.There is a deep hole in the sidewalk.I pretend I don’t see it.I fall in again.I can’t believe I [ ]