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Running Toward the Fire
July 2026 reflection on Running Toward the Fire, paired with The Gift of the Flame, tracing place, turn, and emotional record.
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I write what refuses silence
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Someone Said Something Kind the Other Day, And
June 2026 reflection on Someone Said Something Kind the Other Day, And, paired with The Man Who Stayed, tracing place, turn, and emotional record.
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The Walk Was the Point
June 2026 reflection on The Walk Was the Point, paired with The Wealth of Ordinary Days, tracing place, turn, and emotional record.
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So, What If
May 2026 reflection on So, What If, paired with One More Good Thing, tracing place, turn, and emotional record.
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Lost in Paradise
The ocean took my phone, the turtles didn't hatch, and a man named Ron grabbed my ankles on a beach in Jacó. A day about not gripping what was never meant to stay.
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Ashes Without Ruin
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Fishing With Hope
I was walking Hermosa Beach at sunset when I saw him — a man out on the dark rock with a rod in his hands, casting into the surf as the light failed. I never saw his face. I only saw that he stayed, sending the line out again and again into water that had promised him nothing.
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Salt Between the Tides
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I Am Not the Same Anymore (Good)
I looked at a photograph from ten years ago recently. Same face, more or less. But something fundamentally different in the eyes — the absence of certain urgencies I used to carry everywhere.
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In the Hush of Dawn, Metamorphosis
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What Pain Actually Teaches (A Field Report)
I have a complicated relationship with the word "wisdom." It gets used so often as a consolation prize — as if the lesson somehow justifies the cost of the tuition. Sometimes pain is just pain.
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Wisdom Through Pain
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On Joy (Not the Instagram Kind)
Joy is not happiness. I want to make that distinction clearly before I say anything else. Happiness is circumstantial. Joy is something deeper and stranger — it can coexist with pain.
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Embrace the Joy Within