Hearth Before Fire

Friendship can be the most romantic relationship because it is the only bond that insists on seeing the person as they are and loving them without scripts or securities; that combination of freedom, candor, and chosen loyalty makes it both liberating and exacting, the...
Edge of Normal

Edge of Normal

Normal is a truce we negotiate to feel safe. But the spider’s “business as usual” is the fly’s last minute, and both stories are true at the same time. The label we choose decides who gets empathy and who gets blamed, who gets budget and who gets ignored. In...

Inner Test: Who Leads Us?

People came here chasing the story of freedom, opportunity on demand, a democracy that listens, a future written by effort, not just because it was true, but because it was marketed that way by Hollywood and media mythmaking. Yet democracy is still human, and humans...

Home Isn’t Somewhere Else

What if the quiet ache you keep trying to outwork isn’t a problem to solve but a compass pointing you home? We arrive in this life wearing names, roles, deadlines, forgetting that we were once something vast and boundaryless. Then we spend years chasing success, love,...
Wake Up At The T-Junction

Wake Up At The T-Junction

If “normal” is whatever the crowd agrees to today, then “normal” is a moving target that shrinks your mind to fit a box you didn’t build. From far away, the march looks orderly, everyone drifting in a direction that seems sensible enough. Zoom in, though, and it...