Copper Headpiece 2022-47
A short artist’s note on a handcrafted copper crown made for the author’s birthday, and the new tradition of crafting a unique tiara each year to build a growing personal collection.
A short artist’s note on a handcrafted copper crown made for the author’s birthday, and the new tradition of crafting a unique tiara each year to build a growing personal collection.
An argument that money inevitably distorts relationships by creating a power imbalance and dependence, causing the receiving party to withhold their full truth, and that genuine connection deepens only when financial dependence is removed.
A brief artist’s note describing a channeled artwork, a dragonfly created in a trance-like state the artist cannot consciously recall or reproduce, embraced as a one-of-a-kind piece.
A reflection on why finite words inevitably fall short of expressing infinite or divine concepts like love, oneness, and nonduality, and whether such understanding might instead be conveyed through energy.
An ethical framework for energy and consciousness work, centered on the rule of not affecting anyone without their knowledge and permission, with exceptions for sending love, group healing, and acting as an instrument of Source.
An examination of the financial relationship between parents and children, the true cost of raising kids, the limits of allowances, and how healthy money boundaries ultimately foster a child’s independence and a stronger relationship.
An explanation of the distinction between psychic and intuitive practice, where the psychic derives hidden truth by force while the intuitive reflects what your higher self or subconscious is ready to reveal and heal, and when each fits.
A reflection, sparked by a dream, on art as the act of creation standing against the natural forces of entropy and decay, with those forces providing both the material and the contrast that give creative expression meaning.
A reflection on partnership arguing that you do not need a partner at the same stage of the journey, since we all cycle through stages, but rather one who is awake and, above all, wholeheartedly supports your dreams.
A practical guide to the money conversations adult children eventually face with aging parents, recognizing who will be the caretaker and executor, opening awkward discussions with care, and assembling an emergency notebook of financial details.
A personal reflection on a message received in meditation, “I WILL. BE. ALL.,” contemplating how will, being, and the all support one another, offered as a word-by-word contemplation practice for the spiritual journey.
An essay expanding the concept of power beyond physical and psychological force into the realms of energy and consciousness, where influence is unbound by time, location, or distance, and framing such power as a neutral instrument for change.
A teaching essay on defining success by one’s own daily actions rather than others’ outcomes, showing how tying success to what other people do breeds a controlling, stressful mindset across large missions, business growth, and parenting alike.
A practical guide to designing a compelling dream life and calculating a personal ‘magic number’ for financial independence as a couple, using detailed real-world budgeting, a 4-5% annual withdrawal rule, and the alignment of personal, partner, and shared dreams.
A short literary story in which an intuitive walker, She Who Sees, and her beloved observe a small town’s rhythms and sense mounting political tension erupt when a neighborhood’s flag is dyed black to signal no quarter.
A 2022 oil-on-canvas painting (24 x 48 in) created for a lotus-themed guest cottage, presenting the lotus through three perspectives — a traditional side view, a top-down view, and an energetic view — as a symbol of the awakening higher self.
The project page for the annotated 1932 edition of “The Subconscious Speaks,” a short, practical manual on using the subconscious mind, with added notes comparing its ideas to Joe Dispenza, Esther Hicks, and the philosopher Hermes.
A reflective essay proposing that grief works on a sliding scale, where even small losses and routine life changes trigger a proportionally small but real feeling of loss that dissolves into gratitude when it is acknowledged and given attention.
A dream-inspired teaching arguing that every person moves through a spiritual journey of growth across the stages, consciously or not, and that even those who dismiss spirituality still learn, evolve, and give gifts at the level of the soul.
A practical essay on how getting finances in order can deepen a partnership, through shared frugality, five-dollar date nights, the trust built by sticking to a spend plan, and the way financial honesty translates into closer intimacy.
An allegorical story about a golden calf who repeatedly slips through his fence yet keeps returning to the herd, weighing the trade-off between a longer, harder life of freedom and a shorter, comfortable life of complacency.
A reflective essay theorizing that the body stores emotional pain as survival-focused memory while joy lives mainly in the mind, and exploring how intention and energy work can release stored pain without erasing its lessons.
A teaching on how the subconscious mind shapes reality through programmed beliefs, and why, as the human and subconscious minds merge later in the journey, one must guard ever more carefully what one reads, watches, and listens to.
A guide to the emotional baggage that makes budgeting hard, covering renaming the budget a spend plan, balancing the saver and spender within a couple, and releasing fears carried forward from past financial relationships.
A humorous, observational story about a couple’s country walk interrupted by a van submerged in a river, a fumbled joke to a police officer, and two grandmothers convinced the whole small town is full of meth dealers.