The Intimacy of Attention Blog
An exploration of what time and space can reveal.
This way to poetry. (coming soon)
Birdsong and Headstones
Yesterday, as I drove into the sun with tears streaming down my face I wondered why it hit so much harder this year. Memories of her face melting as she held my daughter for the first time bubbled up, breaking the surface tension of a momentary stoicism. A woman...
You are already an embodiment.
You are already an embodiment. We all are. We begin this life by becoming an embodiment of our spiritual essence and our innate and inherited constitutions. Over time we begin to embody affinities, sometimes born of love and sometimes born of trauma. These might seem...
Shit.
As I was planning my first ever creative sabbatical I was also having significant upgrades made to the house. The 70-year old gravity furnace needed to be replaced along with the 20-year old water heater. I decided to have a simple plumbing job done instead of waiting...
Finding the Radiant Heart Within
In my house, Sundays are for creativity, heart, and self-remembering. Well, every day is for those things, and Sunday is an especially good day to write about them. This post is about the messy, glorious process of creativity rather than creative output. Before we...
Remembering Ourselves
What does it mean to remember ourselves? For some, this might seem like a strange question prompting a different one in response: How could one forget themselves? In my experience, self-forgetting is a safety strategy and just like any other safety strategy is formed...
Our Beautiful Monsters
One of the prevailing attitudes toward becoming a better version of ourselves that I see frequently involves attempting to cut parts of ourselves out, getting control of them, or silencing them in some way. We may know intellectually that shadow work is about...
Into the Unknowing
The unknowing can sound dreamy and romantic when we’re reading about someone else’s experience, particularly after they’ve come to some sort of understanding of it, but in the midst of our own it can feel more like being in the goo in the early stages of a butterfly’s...
The Promise and the Path
In many ways inner work is learning to be curious about our curiosities—our own strangenesses like the jungle peeking out from behind the garden we keep carefully pruned or the colors that won’t flow within the lines we’ve drawn. This work creates an opening where we...
The Call to Inner Work
Hello and welcome! This is the first of a series of blog posts focusing on inner work: why one would do it; ways to do it including using somatic practices, energetics, and using personal symbolism as a gateway to wisdom; and its impact on the flow of vitality and...