stillness

  • A person who sits with their demons long enough realizes that they are all teachers wearing masks. I used to think they came carrying pitchforks. Turns out they arrived holding mirrors. Funny how disappointment always introduces itself as punishment until enough years pass for you to realize it was simply an instructor with terrible bedside…

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  • The Quiet That Leaves First

    At first, it looks like silence is weakness.Like absence means loss.Like walking away is the same as giving up. So you stay.You listen to noise.You explain yourself to storms.You call turbulence “connection.” But something strange happens when you finally understand stillness.It doesn’t beg.It doesn’t argue.It doesn’t chase what refuses to be gentle. The louder the…

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  • Don’t Ask Alice-Entry I

    (Headphones on-Tycho-Awake) Nothing happened today. No collapse. No epiphany. No moment dramatic enough to tell someone about. The kind of day that would have terrified me once because it offered nothing to cling to. I woke up without urgency. No need to check messages to see who still wanted me. No inventory of what I…

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  • The Rest Between Mountains

    There are nights when even the strongest souls grow weary. When the climb feels endless, and the view—no matter how breathtaking—no longer fills the ache that’s settled somewhere between your ribs and your willpower. You look at the mountain and whisper, not tonight. There’s a strange beauty in surrendering to stillness. In stepping off the…

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