Archive - Strength Reversed

Spring Reading: An Incomplete List

I am one of those people who reads a lot of books at one time, and who goes through phases of single-minded voracity for reading. I have always been a…

Apr 8 •

February 2024

picking up the gauntlet of American ego (abroad)

Feb 20 •

December 2023

update in long paragraph, images

leaving CA & biding our time in New England: dead time 2023?

Dec 14, 2023 •

October 2023

Workshop #2 link is live!

As promised, here is the Eventbrite page for the second round of Cultivating Creativity, happening at the Alembic in Berkeley on Thursday, October 19…

Oct 5, 2023 •

Update, & upcoming Creativity workshop Oct 19

Hi all, It’s fall, and we are preparing to leave California. Our studio is a chaos of boxes, lists, and Post-It notes. These last weeks have been…

Oct 3, 2023 •

September 2023

Attn: upcoming Berkeley workshop

Cultivating Creativity launches at the Alembic September 21!

Sep 8, 2023 •

August 2023

Housing the "Homeless Heart"

on the Via Negativa in menstrual magic, theology, and poetry, and on loving "the nothing that is"

Aug 9, 2023 •

July 2023

Everybody Wants to Be a Cat!

the constellation Leo shines like sunlight off the ocean.

Jul 27, 2023 •

June 2023

Excerpt from a summer notebook

reflecting during this Venus retrograde in Leo on Vienna 2017 / interspersed with images of two dependencies from that time (coffee and roses)

Jun 29, 2023 •

April 2023

Tallying Surrender: John Ashbery's "The System," Meister Eckhart, and the MEQ

Adapted from a talk I gave last weekend at UC Berkeley for the Forms of Psychedelic Life: An Interdisciplinary Conference Exploring the Intersections of…

Apr 18, 2023 •

"And so you chose poetry."

Beginning a new academic term teaching a college poetry workshop, a formative anecdote from my time at Berkeley recurs and is amplified

Apr 6, 2023 •

January 2023

Un-hacking Intellectual Industry: Academia, Tech, & the Myth of Detoxification

Radar is the capacity to pick up signals. Reality Selection is the skill for recognizing distinctions between different types of signals. Healing is the…

Jan 30, 2023 •

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