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A NOTE ON PRESENCE
The Silence That Stays
There is a difference between staying silent and engaging in silence. Presence can remain warm, attentive, and fully alive, even when we say less.
Read the reflectionA COLLECTION OF BRIEF REFLECTIONS
Notes On...
Becoming, belonging, boundaries, queer life, and the sacred usually hiding somewhere painfully ordinary.
WHY NOTES?
I’ve always loved taking notes.
Little mantras, questions, a sentence that catches me off guard. A phrase arrives while I’m on the subway or doing something ordinary, and I grab my phone to capture it before it disappears. Later, I go back. Sometimes there’s something there. Sometimes there isn’t. The pieces that stay become these brief responses to everyday becoming.
In my undergraduate program, I took a few creative nonfiction writing classes and fell in love with all the shapes a story could take. I’d spent years telling stories as an actor. Now I got to explore the literary forms, too. I became a big fan of Susan Sontag’s Notes on “Camp”, with its numbered observations, and of aphorisms. Those small thoughts can open a door without turning into an essay.
Notes On is my creative writing corner. It’s a little digital journal where I can follow a question, try out a metaphor, sit with a line or quote or a musical theater lyric, and see how it meets everyday life.
RECENT NOTES
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A NOTE ON VULNERABILITY
Daring Greatly (in Therapy)
Therapy can feel like a doorway into the unknown. Perhaps beginning is a form of daring greatly: arriving with the parts still deciding whether it’s safe and allowing ourselves to be known, one honest moment at a time.
Read the reflectionA NOTE ON REST
Put the day down before you carry it into tomorrow.
MindfulnessA NOTE ON BELONGING
What if your identity isn’t separate from your spirituality?
Queer & sacredA NOTE ON BOUNDARIES
Your boundaries don’t need a closing argument.
RelationshipsA NOTE TO BEGIN WITH
Pay attention to whatever keeps tapping you on the shoulder. It might look ordinary. Look again.
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