Beauty

Creation could become recreation.

To take only one Roman example, Cicero said that “whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.”

It was my favorite way to escape until I stopped wanting to escape and I wanted to build a world around myself that I don’t need to escape from.

To be ludic is not to be ludicrous.

The better we know ourselves, the better we’re able to design systems, technologies, lenses that intentionally empower our lights vs. blindly perpetuate our shadows.”

performative displays of expertise

sloppy, sophomoric sonnets

Coaching, I found, was essentially a portrait session without a camera.

All I can control is how present, open, and accepting I am to what is happening now.