Lately, I’ve been trying something new. I’m not curating the experience.I’m not forcing connection.I’m not providing insight or entertainment on demand. I’m just… arriving. And it’s making me feel acutely aware of myself, unexpectedly. Not in a self-love way. Not in a “finally at peace” way. More in the way you feel when someone pulls… Continue reading What to Do With My Arms
We’re living in a time that feels like an ugly, dangerous time loop. We’ve watched this story play out in different colors, religions, and cultures. Across the boundaries of different nations and places. But the pattern is the same. Conquer. Collect. Push certain people to the margins. Make them bad. Make them evil. Call them… Continue reading This is Not Strength
This is part of a three-year exploration of the Siren archetype that involves moving from survival to stillness, and finally, to sovereignty. As I re-read my thoughts from Power in Depth, I began to wonder about the mechanics of how we actually stay there safely. What happens when the “middle ground” stops feeling like a… Continue reading Part 2: The Physics of the Rise
Finding home in the space between the surface and the deep. This is part of a three-year exploration of the Siren archetype involving moving from survival to stillness, and finally, to sovereignty. The Siren has been an archetype that I’ve been dancing with for a while. More recently, I’ve been trying to embody her not… Continue reading Part 1: Power in Depth
Yesterday, an ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman. And before anyone rushes to frame this as a shocking escalation, I want to say this plainly: This isn’t new violence.What’s new is the size of the audience. Black and brown communities have been living inside this reality for generations. They didn’t wake up yesterday… Continue reading It isn’t Escalation. It’s Exposure
How many of us spend our lives searching for our One Big Purpose? Probably most of us. We want to matter. We want to belong. We want to know that when we are gone, something of us remains. Someone once told me that people try to ensure this in one of two ways. They have… Continue reading One Big Purpose
There are seasons when life removes the illusion of control, when the scaffolding that holds your sense of safety simply disappears. You think you’re doing well, managing everything, staying grounded… until something shifts beneath you and your nervous system tells the truth your mind won’t say out loud. Recently my foundation disappeared. My home, the… Continue reading When the Ground Gives Way
Perhaps the worst lie we ever toldwas that America was the land of opportunity. That if you came,if you worked,if you did your best,it didn’t matter who you wereor where you came from.You could be anything. I wanted to believe that story.We all did.It was stitched into every anthem,every flag in our childhood classrooms,every promise… Continue reading The Land of Lies
The ugliness isn’t new.It just sat in corners,under wraps —racism simmering beneath the surface,homophobia,transphobia,xenophobia... people aching to other their neighbors,to write fear and discomfort into law. History we thought was behind usis hanging Black men from trees again.Women bleeding out in parking lots,denied carebecause compassion’s been made illegal. People online cheering for brutalityagainst their neighborsbecause… Continue reading The Ugliness Isn’t New: It’s Just Louder Now
I never thought we’d fall. But now I can’t help but see the small, seemingly harmless ways we’ve given up our freedommanipulated to do what’s right, practical, and safe. I remember 9/11. Listening to the news on the radio. Numb.Certain it had to be a misunderstanding.It couldn’t happen here. I was a college student, wandering… Continue reading Fear and Freedom
