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From the Hearth

Part writing nook, part practice pad, this is where ideas and visions are honored and offered freely.

If something resonates, throw a log on the fire and share your thoughts in the comments.

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Week 8 Invitation

✍︎ weekly invitation: What’s one thing you can do this week to honor your body?

comment or contemplate

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how does it feel?
how does it feel?

feelings transposed to sound, unedited unplanned raw and messy as they are

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Tapetum Lucidum is already winning awards
Tapetum Lucidum is already winning awards

As a member of the National Speleological Society, I decided to submit a writeup of Tapetum to their Arts & Letters publication, Illuminations. I included some photos I took inside Tawney’s Cave, one of myself with the lyrics to “Stalactites”, and a link to the track as-is (unfinished). Since I couldn’t physically attend the NSS convention, it was quite a surprise when I received an email letting me know I had won an award for it.

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Week 6 Invitation

𓂃✍︎ weekly invitation:

What are you allowing to be “in transit” right now, without needing to know where it lands?

share in the comments or carry it with you


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weekly reflection:

weekly reflection thread:

Now that the year has begun to move on its own, what feels like it’s actually settling — not what I planned, but what’s naturally taking root

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Calling All Curious Cavers
Calling All Curious Cavers

A call to all curious cavers:

enter the echo chamber with me as I begin my exploration of The Heroine’s Journey—unearthing the music, symbols, and lessons I have found in the dark.

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What we CAN do
What we CAN do

A reflection on enoughness, creativity, and learning to honor what we already hold.

Lately, as I build out The Listener’s Lodge—a home for slow art and shared wonder—I’ve been thinking about what it really means to offer what we have, rather than mourn what we lack.

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Tapetum Lucidum is already winning awards

As a member of the National Speleological Society, I decided to submit a writeup of Tapetum to their Arts & Letters publication, Illuminations. I included some photos I took inside Tawney’s Cave, one of myself with the lyrics to “Stalactites”, and a link to the track as-is (unfinished). Since I couldn’t physically attend the NSS convention, it was quite a surprise when I received an email letting me know I had won an award for it.

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