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21 Aug

A tri guy’s request for feedback – and it’s a most excellent read!

A friend asked me for feedback Find his thoughts here: https://rickbolin99.substack.com/p/ai-what-is-justice When the Air Tilts and I Feel the Hinge Beneath My Feet When I read your essay, Rick, I felt that strange atmospheric pressure that shows up in endurance

15 Aug

Return to the Quiet Hearth

A mythic‑stoic meditation on the forest crone — not the monster famine made her, but the keeper of the hearth’s threshold. This essay traces the ritual of ash‑cleaning, the somatic descent into ancestral fire, and the return to an older way of remembering. It moves through terrain, pressure, and...

30 Jul

The Cost of Elevation

Threshold — The Friction That Never Sat Right I’ve never resonated with the hero’s journey. That’s not a contrarian posture. It’s a lived mismatch. In high school, when teachers rolled out Campbell’s arc as if it were a universal skeleton

14 Jul

Logan Triathlon – 2026: The Currents I Move Through

A race morning in Logan becomes a study in nervous‑system clarity, gravel‑taught handling, GLP‑1 physiology, and the quiet spectrum of athletes who share the same asphalt. From the serpentine swim to the cramped bike to the softening of ego in a post‑race shoelace conversation, this essay traces the anticipatory...

14 Jul

The Indirect Path: Praise, Presence, and the Nervous System

Say that again! There’s a phrase I use in my own house and in my consulting work: passive‑aggressive praise. Not the hostile kind — the architectural kind. The kind you use when you understand that different nervous systems metabolize attention

10 Jul

A Podcast worth sharing

WHOLE PARENT Podcast – Mary Van Geffen Parenting a SPICY One – Book https://youtu.be/0Ar3SJ81q0w?si=fuu4vLdf9-lewdL1 The episode centers on parenting coach Mary Van Geffen and her framework for understanding and supporting “spicy kids” — children whose intensity, sensitivity, or oppositional energy

09 Jul

A Jimmy Carr – Interaction I want to have access too

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In Agency, Discernment & Systems, Media, Vlogs & Experiments
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I wanted to make sure this is dicscoverable in the future Not all wisdom arrives in polished form. Sometimes it shows up in the dry, wry honesty of a comic doing crowd work — those unscripted moments where a truth

08 Jul

The Cycle I Had Been Living Long Before I Named It

Updated: Aug 7, 2026 WE🌀AD: The Cycle That Turns the Work The Fracture That Opened the Next Breath – WE🌀AD begins WE🌀AD began as a framework — a simple way to organize my work. But it didn’t stay one. It