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Reflections

Essays on finding clarity through writing, honest critiques of culture and society, and connecting lived experience to universal truths.

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The Physics of Holding Together: Lessons from a Women’s Shelter
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The Physics of Holding Together: Lessons from a Women’s Shelter
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The shelter was small—four rooms, four families, four worlds pressed against one another. A quiet choreography of women and children moving through shared air, each orbiting the others, each carrying a different kind of weight.

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The Rooms That Rebuilt Me
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The Rooms That Rebuilt Me
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Then one afternoon, rifling through a stack of papers I wasn’t supposed to see, I found some official looking paperwork and—

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The Invisible Work of Collapse: Is Your Endurance Just Burnout in Disguise?
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The Invisible Work of Collapse: Is Your Endurance Just Burnout in Disguise?
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Pain is feedback—the body’s alarm system for hidden stress. When we normalize that pain (“everyone’s exhausted,” “that’s just the culture”), we mute the signal.

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After the Implosion: How I Built a Life That Stands
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After the Implosion: How I Built a Life That Stands
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Seven years ago, my life effectively ended.

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Steel Logic: How Prefab Teaches Us to Design Better Systems
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Steel Logic: How Prefab Teaches Us to Design Better Systems
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Prefab LGS isn’t just a building system—it’s a structural metaphor for systems that are light, strong, repeatable, and resilient.

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Scratching - the Scar Skin
Poetry, Reflections
Scratching - the Scar Skin
Poetry, Reflections

You work the day shift. You work the night shift. You don’t sleep. You sleep too much. You eat. You don’t. It doesn’t matter. You keep scratching for life, hoping like hell the light returns.

Poetry, Reflections