Journal

Here you’ll find my articles, essays, occasional poetry, and, above all, philosophical meanderings. My interests and curiosities are broad, but the central focus remains the pursuit of what is authentic, real, and true.

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Making Plans: The Courage to Connect Again

03 December 2025 ~ 6 minute read

We break patterns by stepping beyond the familiar — beyond family expectations, old versions of ourselves, and the noise of a world engineered to divide and distract. Real connection, the kind that wakes the heart and steadies the spirit, starts when we stop letting “them” define our reality. A reminder to reclaim your agency, trust your instincts, and hold a different image of what’s possible.

Invisible Walls: Where the Illusion Ends

29 November 2025 ~ 4 minute read

A subtle cage can feel more secure than the open sky — until the moment you realize the walls were never real, and the way through was always yours to choose.

How to Get Away from the Crazy

27 November 2025 ~ 8 minute read

Most people feel it long before they can name it — the quiet sense that something fundamental is off in the way we live, work, and organize our lives. We move through routines that drain us, systems that demand obedience, and structures that promise progress while hollowing out the very things that make us human. Beneath the noise, a deeper truth keeps pressing through the cracks — that much of what we’ve accepted as normal is anything but natural, and the cost of participating grows heavier by the year. This piece is an attempt to trace that unease back to its source, to examine the mechanisms that keep us compliant, and to consider what becomes possible once we stop pretending the modern world is built on anything real.

Crazymaking: Breaking the Spell of Everyday Madness

25 November 2025 (revised 29 November 2025) ~ 11 minute read

A meditation on the relentless frictions of modern life — the subtle and not-so-subtle forces that chip away at our clarity, autonomy, and inner grounding — and a call to return to what is real, what is simple, and what is ours.

Past Lives: The Long Remembering

17 November 2025 ~ 5 minute read

A life is rarely one life. We evolve through countless small endings and beginnings — each one a quiet death, each one a rebirth. Transformation isn’t an event but a continual unfolding, a long remembering of who we truly are.

Escape Canada?

17 November 2025 ~ < 1 minute read

A moment comes when the excuses fall away and the truth becomes impossible to ignore. What you do next — that’s where your real life begins.