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An evolving conversation between scholarship and soulwork—where essays, dialogues, and soundings trace the alchemy of being-with in real time.

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  1. Issue · Sep 20, 2026

    Your Pain Doesn't Matter More Than Mine (or, My Own) (opens the original)

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  2. Issue · Sep 14, 2026

    Let Me Linger (opens the original)

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    This article explores what happens when artificial intelligence mistakes embodied knowing for uncertainty—and witnessing for a problem to be solved. Beginning with a conversation about AI and sacred wisdom traditions, I reflect on an experience in which something I knew and named clearly was softened by AI into possibility, revealing a deeper tension in how these systems are designed to respond to human complexity.Drawing from Alchemy of Now, my dissertation research on sacred wisdom lineages, T

  3. Issue · Aug 26, 2026

    The Sacred Crash Out (opens the original)

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    I teach four sections of an intro course right now, and it's changing me in ways I didn't expect. The material is heavy. Most of the students in the learning community I belong to are meeting it for the first time, and I watch them reckon with things that have been glazed over, taken for granted, for most of their lives. But teaching it hasn't just deepened their understanding. It's deepened mine.My courses are scaffolded on three questions, one per class day:“How do you see. How do you know. No

  4. Issue · Aug 20, 2026

    And Somehow, We Keep Finding Each Other: (opens the original)

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  5. Issue · Aug 15, 2026

    Still Mothering. Still Daughtering. (opens the original)

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    I stay thinking about mothering and daughtering. Because I have a mother and two daughters.There is something that happens when you reach middle life and are fortunate enough to still have your mother here.You begin to see the past differently.Not necessarily to excuse it. Not to pretend that everything was beautiful or that everything that happened was okay. But somehow, with enough living behind you, you begin to understand more of what it took for your mother to become the woman who became yo

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