Decan 23: Blooming in the Desert — When the Dying Star Teaches Transformation Through Instability
On learning to glow under pressure, showing up when it feels absurd, and the 535 million kilometers we traveled while transformation unfolded
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535 Million Kilometers: When Sisyphus Learns to Automate the Boulder
Time is motion. During 10 days tracking consciousness by starlight, we traveled 535 million kilometers through space toward the Great Attractor. On oath-keeping across cosmic scales, burnout as sacred data, and what Sisyphus does when he learns to automate the boulder. A philosophical synthesis spanning Stoicism, Absurdism, and Logotherapy.
Decan 21-22: Drinking Mercury That Tastes Like Honey and Milk
On consciousness alchemy, warrior oaths, and the sacred practice of witnessing your own chaos through data. Spanning Decan 21 (Vega - Harmony, Beauty) through Decan 22 (Fomalhaut - Clarity, Renewal)
Living Through the AI Revolution: Reflections on Creativity, Balance, and the Modern Gold Rush
A poetic reflection on living through a technological revolution, this entry explores the rapid transformation brought by AI, the allure and risks of innovation, and the search for meaning and balance amid accelerating change. Blending personal contemplation with meditations on design, creativity, and the abstractions of modern life, it offers an intimate snapshot of the present moment at the edge of possibility.
Handwriting as Meditation: Sourcing Creativity Through Flow, Breath, and Rhythm
A meditative reflection on the practice of handwriting as a gateway into the subconscious. This stream-of-consciousness journal entry explores the inner mechanics of creativity, the discipline of returning to the page, and the mystery of sourcing original thought through rhythm, breath, and presence. Written at the turn of a season, it’s a poetic tracing of movement, inertia, and meaning-making in real time.
Pink Boots and a Machete: My Journey From NFL Cheerleader to National Geographic Explorer
A Wild Ride Through Travel, Rebellion, and Self-Discovery. Some travel books are about the places, others about the people.
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Few books have inspired as many readers worldwide as The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. First published in 1988, this novel blends philosophy, mysticis...
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Few novels capture the complexity of human ambition, social class, and personal redemption like Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. Originally pub...
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
The controversy about this book and Mineko Iwasaki the geisha whom the author had interviewed intrigued me to want to read her autobiography Geisha...
Peace in Every Breath by Thich Nhat Hanh
I recently reread this book on a flight during a family trip. It allowed me to see things from a different perspective and was just the wisdom I wa...
On Writing by Stephen King
Some books about writing are technical manuals, others are deeply personal. On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King is a rare fusion of b...
