As writers we live in a strange tension where what we experience is always double-experienced. First, of course, by our human heart. Second, by our poet heart, a far more mysterious cataloguer & cherisher of events. Where the human heart wants to step away from a painful, blistering event, the poet heart steps forward & says, "I see, I'll say, I... See more

I needed somewhere to write, to integrate what I had learned while my world was being reshaped. The MA was a study of imagination and the first of its kind in that it was a scholarly pursuit but also soul work and deeply transformational.

Substack became that. It became the place where I set out to figure out what I think and endeavour to give words... See more