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    When Free Speech Gets You Fired, Democracy Is in Danger

    September 30, 2025

    On September 10, 2025, a political activist was assassinated by a lone gunman. I hadn’t planned to write about it, but a Washington Post article pushed me to speak up. The piece, “In Wisconsin swing district, criticism of Charlie Kirk sparks backlash”, reported that a Wisconsin teacher was placed on paid leave after posting online remarks about Charlie Kirk. Her words angered people in her small rural town—and politicians jumped on it. Kirk had said that having a Second Amendment means accepting some lives will be lost. The teacher called his words “hate” and said people “can’t be upset.” Were…

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    Sorry for the Whiplash

    September 30, 2025

    If you’re here, you most likely got redirected from the old domain. You’ll notice the domain at the top is different than what it used to be. I had some issues with the subdomain I was using, so I decided to switch hosts, bought a second domain to split the domains. Anyway, I haven’t been having a lot of luck with technology, specifically with my websites. It’s been a bit frustrating, and the reason I haven’t been posting as much. I was just having some issues, but I seem to have gotten them resolved and a fresh domain name in…

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    A Theory of Everything: Consciousness at the Core

    August 19, 2025

    For centuries, physicists have tried to unify the rules of the very big (general relativity) with those of the very small (quantum mechanics). So far, no one has cracked it. But what if the missing piece is the most familiar thing of all — consciousness? This Theory of Everything (ToE) proposes that consciousness isn’t a byproduct of matter, but the other way around: matter itself arises from conscious processes. If that’s true, the implications stretch across science, technology, medicine, AI, and even how we see ourselves and each other. 35 Potential Advancements from a Consciousness‑Based ToE Here are some of…

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    The Ratio of the Real

    June 28, 2025

    I. (The Seed) A thought bends inward, folds its wings—a spiral dream no eye can see.In silence, sound begins to sing,and breath becomes geometry,the echo of divinity. II. (The Bloom) The breath becomes a branching tree,each leaf a mirrored memory.A hexagram hums in the stone,light curves where atoms make their home.The self expands with every ring,a center with no boundary—each “I” a fractal openingwithin the One, eternally. III. (The All) All things are numbers in disguise—a spiral carved in galaxies,a whisper coded in the seas,a vesica of yearning eyesreflected in dualities.The mind that dreams the world awakewears every form it…

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    Not Even the Dogs

    June 24, 2025

    They say rock bottom is solid, but this feels more like sinking in air, grasping for something—anything— that won’t disappear when he reaches for it. He used to be somebody, or at least someone who believed he could be. Now he flinches at mirrors like they’re loaded guns. It started small, a shortcut here, a comfort there— a drink for the ache, a lie for the rent, a silence when truth was too loud. He tells himself it was the trauma, that broken compass inside his chest, spinning at the scent of abandonment, ticking louder when touched. Grief is a…

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    Ghost of a Scratch

    June 23, 2025

    They named it a thorn — the scratch they found on their skin one summer when loneliness bit harder than the sun. At first, they told stories of how it bled, how it scabbed, how it made them special in a town too small for difference. Their friends nodded, offered bandages, believed it was deeper than it was. So they limped, they winced, they stitched new sorrow around it — each thread a borrowed ache. Years passed. They learned to walk with a limp no one asked for, to spin every silence into a sermon on how to suffer beautifully.…

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    From Rock Bottom to Rising: My Story of Hope and Recovery

    May 24, 2025

    Most recently, I shared that I’m living in a shelter. The beginning was rough, and the progress toward getting back on my feet started out slowly, but as of recently, there have been a lot of developments. Over the past month I have been putting a lot of work into getting my trifecta together. The trifecta being housing-transportation-employment. When one’s life crumbles, the components of the trifecta disintegrate. Losing one of these three items increases the difficulty of various aspects of one’s life. For example, if you lose employment, it puts financial strain on many areas of your life. If…

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    Sweat, Strength, Sobriety: How Fitness Fortifies Recovery

    May 21, 2025

    Your body doesn’t lie. That tightness in your chest, the restless legs, the hum of nerves under your skin—it’s all part of it. Recovery has a way of making stillness feel impossible, like sitting in a room that’s too quiet after a lifetime of noise. So don’t sit. Don’t wait for the calm to come find you. Go outside, move until your muscles ache more than your thoughts do. There’s clarity in motion that you just can’t get from thinking. Get a Grip on Routine You might not think of exercise as a compass, but it is. Wake up, stretch,…

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    Getting There

    March 8, 2025

    After a recent relapse, I found myself at a crossroads—staring into the eyes of the one being who has never given up on me. In this moment of clarity, I realized the depth of my journey, the struggles that shaped me, and the strength I still have left. This is about fighting forward, step by step, with hope as my guide.

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    Daily Prompt

    The Ultimate Gift

    January 4, 2025

    World peace. No, seriously, though. I think that should be it for everybody. But I think this prompt is asking us to think of ourselves more specifically. My first instinct is to say “lifelong financial security” or something along those lines. That would certainly be the greatest gift for most people. I’ve been thinking about how to answer this all day. I was going to say something about emotional regulation or conflict resolution, but I think the greatest gift somebody could give me would be to acquire and improve skills more efficiently. Since we can go any way with this,…