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  • Another Egg Hatches

    Another Egg Hatches

    When I was writing my first book, The Bipolar Bodhisattva, and adding all of the art, I kept thinking about how I really wanted to add interpretation to the art.  However, the book was already at the bursting point, coming in at nearly 158,000 words, well over double what most publishers will accept, and that’s…

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  • The Egg Hatches

    The Egg Hatches

    I have just achieved a major accomplishment.  Yesterday, I made my book, The Bipolar Bodhisattva, public on my site.  It is a mental health and spirituality memoir covering fifteen years of my blog posts, in addition to supplementary material never before seen.  It sits at the intersection of trauma recovery, Dharma studies, and Jungian psychology.…

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  • Homage to the Self-Fallen

    Homage to the Self-Fallen

    I began writing this on Memorial Day but was unable to finish it in time.  The words still hold truth, and so I am publishing it on the anniversary of my father’s death. C/TW: suicide The last Monday in May is Memorial Day in the United States, a holiday reserved for remembering soldiers fallen in…

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