Creativity

Coming Through Loud and Clear: Cognitive Static Can Suck It

A couple weeks ago I decided to make some lifestyle changes that I hoped would help me with my writing. This experiment is based on the research I've done around…

July 24, 2023

Zen

The Moon is in the Sky

We are all like Chiyono to some degree or another. Carrying around a rickety bucket, anxious that it will break at any moment, and convinced that we hold the moon…

November 10, 2023

Music, Published Elsewhere

Album Review: The Bright Light Social Hour drops “Emergency Leisure” on 8/2/23

Read my review of The Bright Light Social Hour’s brand new LP, Emergency Leisure (Escondido Records) on The Cosmic Clash… [here]

August 8, 2023

Religion, Zen

Heaven is a Place on Earth

My budding Zen practice has helped me recenter and reorient my whole self – physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual – around the idea that we are not some separate, special…

August 1, 2023

Mental Health, Zen

Life is Good.

What I realized this year is that the purpose of life is simply to be alive. Fully. At all times, in all moments. To meet each living thing with respect…

November 7, 2023

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