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An Open Letter to Francis Weller (opens the original)
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Like many folks who live, work, and breathe somatics, grief, and liberation work, I’ve been worked over by the reveal in ’s Accountability Beyond Banishment: that you’ve kept yourself planted on the list of Men Who Abuse Power Then Hide It.I’ve been more reactive with my kid, quicker to anger and slower to repair. There’s a slow, ugly churning in my gut, a DUI collision in my heart.The feeling is a sort of ragged disappointment, one I’ve gotten so used to over the last
Woodshop I Ching: Progress (opens the original)
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Sixteen Months to Live (opens the original)
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A friend of mine has 16 months to live. A couple of months ago, just after he’d sold his house and everything he owned and moved to Europe to be close to his daughter as she started university, he got a phone call. Stage 4. Inoperable. 18 months. He moved back to the States. Community. Medical. He bought a nice condo and a Tesla. Joined a bougie private athletic club. Got season tickets to the pro teams in town. I’m doing some carpentry work for him. We talk design but also death. He’s no strang
Self-Mastery 101: SENSATION (opens the original)
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Can you feel your phone right now? Like, actually, feel it? The weight. The texture. If you’re in a coffee shop, can you smell the beans? Hear the machine grinding and spitting and frothing? I won’t presume that anyone’s actually talking, but maybe the taptaptap of a keyboard. Can you feel the weight of your own head, the tension in your neck muscles? Your posture, at whatever angle your back is hunched, or spine stacked? The unconscious balancing act of your body in space.If you’re like most pe
Where Do You Imprison Your Monsters? (opens the original)
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Somewhere deep inside a man there’s a room whose walls are built from thick, steel-reinforced concrete. <img alt="brown wooden ladder on gray concrete wall" class="sizing-normal" height="3914" src="https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1609974
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