existential
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Underwater silence. I know the sound from being tethered to the bottom of a lake once but now it’s directly threatening. The rush of fear constricting my chest yanks the vagus nerve running up my neck. Too close to the reptilian connection that hearing has to survival, my amygdala gets defensive and rakes a dull…
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On Catching the Ephemeral with the “I”. As a writer I constantly get prompts from the exterior world that it might be worth my while to take my creative output seriously. I should keep notes, I hear from my muse. If I go for a walk, say, along the base of a mountain like last…
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“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.” – Jean Jacques Rousseau In my twenties I had no idea that my decisions no matter how big or small were actually deciding the trajectory of my life. The metaphor of the pilot making tiny adjustments to the plane’s path comes to…
