An essay on why family can so easily trigger old subconscious baggage during holiday gatherings, offering mindfulness and healthy boundaries — including choosing distance — as the main defenses, and distinguishing supportive family from mere blood relation.
An original song, with chords and lyrics, about longing for a simpler, freer life — the feeling on vacation, camping or in an RV of wanting to stay in a life without chasing money or things, where you can simply be yourself.
A raw existential essay, prompted by a birthday, on the temporary and evolving nature of self and world, the absence of inherent purpose, and the conclusion that life may be best treated as a game or vacation worth lightening up about.