• Notes to Self

    What Does My Unconscious Want to Tell Me?

    March 26, 2025 - By 

    What’s going on beyond the reaches of my mind? That might be the best way to phrase the question I’ve been exploring in earnest for a little more than three years now. I’ve always worked at improving myself, and little of my adult life was spent with no self-improvement “projects” underway, but in January of 2022, I took the work to new levels. Perhaps I’ll add a Bibliography page/section and share all of the books I’ve read since then. Anyway, about a year ago, I read Focusing by Eugene Gendlin, after stumbling upon the concept at a therapist’s website. The…

  • Poetry

    Less Than a Whisper

    September 16, 2024 - By 

    His silences have become more significant than his words. Did he learn it from his mother?She’s the woman with the trick of raising one eyebrowin response to the movements of your mouth.The only time I notice her eyebrows, in fact,is when one of them is pushing itself up above the other:a microcosm of the macrocosm:her way of raising herself up above me or anyone elsewho needs putting in place. He told me last night that he wants to listen and understand me.That’s new, and I appreciate the intention and the follow through.I really do. But those damn silences.The one from…