Ideas
to live
with.

THE WAY I SEE THINGS · PART 1

Identity · Philosophy / 4 min read

The Painting Was Already There

Sometimes understanding arrives as a whole picture. The work is finding the language—and asking what the picture has left out.

Spirituality · Anthropology / 3 min read

What If Your Destiny Needs You?

Igbo chi, Plato’s daimon and the possibility that becoming is something we participate in.

Creation · Philosophy / 2 min read

Give Your Inner World Somewhere to Go

A question becomes a book. A feeling becomes art. What happens to us in the making?

THE WAY I SEE THINGS · PART 2

Philosophy · Spirituality / 4 min read

Before It Became a Message for Us

Before a text spoke to us, it belonged to someone else’s world. I want to meet the person who heard it first.

Philosophy · Spirituality / 3 min read

Are You Becoming—or Remembering?

Plato’s recollection opens a curious door: what if some of what we seek is already, in some sense, within us?

Psychology · Becoming / 2 min read

You Don’t Have to Feel Ready to Begin

There is a difference between preparing for the work and waiting to become someone else.

THE WAY I SEE THINGS · PART 3

Spirituality · Anthropology / 5 min read

No Angel Wings and No Dragon Bones

Human visitors, six-winged beings, Renaissance babies and fossil wings: how did such different things enter our inherited pictures?

Identity · Philosophy / 2 min read

Before They Named You

Who were you before the world began telling you who you should be?

THE WAY I SEE THINGS · PART 4

Anthropology · Philosophy / 5 min read

What Survives Is Not the Whole Story

A ritual, a winged disc, a question that will not leave: following the movement from recognition to investigation.

Spirituality · Identity / 2 min read

What If a Calling Keeps Returning?

On the ideas that follow us—and the difference between listening and having every answer.