Rituals, Seasons & Mythic Threads – zentriathlete

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...

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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

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11 May

Presence Over Perfection

Most people think care is a feeling. It isn’t. It’s a discipline — the quiet, unglamorous work of showing up where the world looks away. The ones who matter don’t rush to fix or judge. They sit in the mud with you until your eyes adjust. They bring a...

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19 Apr

The Cliff I’ve Stood On Since Four

That hive rule is just the Golden Rule in work clothes — the whittled‑down heart of the commandments, the part Jesus said mattered most. Treat others as you’d treat yourself. Everything else is scaffolding.

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18 Apr

Grief, Stoicism, and the Strange Work of Carrying What We Lose

A heart that’s been broken is a heart that’s been loved. One line from a song, but it names something I keep circling back to: grief doesn’t follow rules. It doesn’t care about your training cycle, your calendar, or the

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30 Nov

Liz – My spouse – a thought from last year – A tribute to a wonderful lady I get to call – wife!

A tribute I wrote last year – about this time! I wanted to share something about my spouse/wife that is too often forgotten – Liz LivingstonWhat happens after an injury holding a child and falling down stairs? Then years of

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30 Nov

Traditions – Yule related

❄️❄️❄️❄️Some celebrate Yule on the Winter Solstice… ❄️❄️❄️❄️ ❄️❄️❄️❄️but it hasn’t always worked that way. ❄️❄️❄️❄️ In Norse tradition, Yule (Jól) began later in midwinter — on the full moon. But when Yule was added to the Wheel of the

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12 Nov

A spark from a random work conversation – so I share the rabbit holes I wandered

Sometimes wandering into rabbitholes emerges from unlikely places Rabbit hole number 1 A conversation sparked this thought: “I see you shared this on Friday – and hope by now things have settled – I share a comic and a meme

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11 Nov

An Armistice Day Reflection

Armistice Day Reflection At the eleventh hour, on the eleventh day of the eleventh month—marked even to the eleventh second—the guns fell silent, and the First World War came to its solemn end. That moment in 1918 became a symbol

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