I write what refuses silence
· Reflection
I was walking Hermosa Beach at sunset when I saw him — a man out on the dark rock with a rod in his hands, casting into the surf as the light failed. I never saw his face. I only saw that he stayed, sending the line out again and again into water that had promised him nothing.
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Salt Between the Tides
· Inspirational
The tide here doesn't ask permission. It comes up behind you like an old friend who has decided your conversation is over, and erases the last quarter mile of your thinking without so much as an apolo…
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What Stays
· Journal
Three years in Santa Fe. Twelve days in Costa Rica. One missed flight for a dog. A gift the math does not balance.
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Jaco Pulse
· On Writing
A May 2026 reflection on "May Draft Notes: Light Through the Cracks", tied to "Why Love Feels Like a Penitence" and written as a personal record of what I was living and feeling.
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Why Love Feels Like a Penitence
· Nature
A Galveston shoreline entry about salt air, weathered posts, gulls, the Gulf tide, and the quiet origin of the poem Tideposts.
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Tideposts
· Journal
April 2026 journal on Pipes and the Tide, paired with Three Walks with Pipes, tracing place, turn, and emotional record.
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Three Walks with Pipes
· On Writing
April 2026 became a month of return: same desk, same town, cleaner attention, and the kind of focus that gets rebuilt through repetition rather than force.
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Light from the Shadows
· On Writing
March 2026 stayed rooted in Santa Fe: early pages, medical follow-through, slower revision, and a steadier writing life than the season looked like from the outside.
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The Quiet Spark Within
· Life & Place
The chamisa is still gray. The bosque along the acequia looks like charcoal drawings of itself. The mornings are cold enough that my coffee goes lukewarm before I finish it.
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The Serenity of Reflection