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Badlands Remember an Ancient Sea

A journey through the Badlands National Park, where an inland sea, volcanic ash, fossils, and millions of years of erosion remain written into the landscape. The Badlands reveal their memory by losing themselves.

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Again-Walker: A Ritual for Living

If landscapes preserve evidence of ancient events, perhaps the places we inhabit preserve traces of human experience. A reflection on grief, ritual, and the enduring relationship between memory and place.

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Primordial Bogging

Summoned by a bog. A silent siren luring me toward banks woven together by cedar roots, cradled by alder and ash. Wisconsin's Brule River is a landscape that remembers. A reflection on glacial history, ancient peatlands, ritual, and the enduring pull of the primordial bog.

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Driftless Area

The Driftless Area is an anomaly. Understanding deep time changes our perception of reality.

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Scaling Reality

How does the physical structure of the Earth shape the way human beings perceive, imagine, and experience the world?

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A New Chapter

We inherit disciplines, but we experience the world as a whole. The sunrise doesn't distinguish between astronomy and poetry. A crystal doesn't know whether it belongs to geology, chemistry, or sacred geometry. What if science and sacred imagination have been speaking to one another all along?

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Are Curses Real?

While I think curses are reactionary and chaotic, they do yield results. But often, not what we intend.

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HoZ Voices

My relationship with the sun and solar rituals discussed on the HoZ Voices podcast.

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May the Winds Erode the Horrors of Today

The horrors of today. Anger. Apathy. Desperation. Distrust. Adrenal fatigue. Fight or flight. May these winds dislodge and loosen the shallow, fleeting morals of those creating the horrors of today.

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3I/ATLAS

An alien spaceship, a cosmic seed, the genesis device or an interstellar comet? On this new moon, December 19, 2025, 3I/ATLAS is passing closest to Earth during its travel through our Solar System.

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Death is the Process of Incubating New Life

Love in its fullest form is a series of deaths and rebirths. To love means to embrace and at the same time to withstand many endings, and many beginnings — all in the same relationship.

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Autumnal Equinox

Just as a Solstice marks the apex of light in the Summer
and darkness in the Winter,
Equinoxes mark turning points for Spring and Fall.

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Answers to the Future can be Found in the Past

These sculptural, earth-built homes are fire-resistant, earthquake-proof, and naturally energy efficient. Inspired by seashells and ancient adobe traditions, they harmonize with the elements rather than fight against them.

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Monsoon Season

Your physical limits are clearly defined in the heat.

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Meditative Healing

"If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill."
–Rumi

This descent is not weakness; it is the first step toward transformation.

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Love Letter to Los Angeles

In 2017, I left New Orleans with just my art studio and moved to L.A. where I found haunted apartments, deep friendships, karmic plot twists, and the desert. In 2018, I spent a month wandering the desert alone in the Mojave during an artist residency. I always knew I’d be back.

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Hyperimmune Response

After years of unexplained symptoms and normal labs, a new UK-based antibody test called AttoMarker revealed signs of a hyperimmune response. This blog documents one patient's journey through systemic symptoms, medical gaslighting, and cutting-edge research.

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