We just moved into a new home in a new city. At the moment, it looks like a shipping container vomited in our living room. There are boxes everywhere—some labeled helpfully (“kitchen”), others more cryptically (“important-ish stuff?”). My suitcase is doing double duty as a dresser. And the dogs have claimed a pile of bubble […]
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“I think we should leave,” I told my wife Kathy. It was our fifth day at Burning Man, the renowned annual gathering of 80,000 people in the Nevada desert. Burning Man isn’t just another festival. It’s where reality and dreams merge, neon lights accentuate surreal art installations, and people shed societal conventions, celebrating life in […]
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I woke up the other day with a hangover. No, not from alcohol. From a long night of conversation that slowly drained me. On the surface, the conversation was warm and friendly. But underneath, the exchange was lopsided. I was listening deeply, holding space, offering presence—and very little was coming back the other way. They […]
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