Don’t you think it’s like our 2 hands, the inner life and the outer? Just look… at your hands, almost the same with different capacities lines, but different lines. In the outer life, I am a squirrel, Busy, frantic, obsessedRead more…
Empath Intro
I wanted to bring the sexy down just a little and clear up what was happening, while still giving a fun tantalizing. Listen to Pól read the intro He was breathing hard from the Pilates routine. There was no ReformerRead more…
Preface to Empath
I wanted to give a context and some lure and some jazz to the beginning of the story, so I added a glimpse of the non-happy ending of Empath to the Preface: Listen to Pól read the preface My nameRead more…
Pelican
The waves on the thin water of the bay are white speedboats, zooming, zooming in. The little sandpipers ducking and bobbing and tweeting their handmaiden dances under the watchful eye of their skylark guards, broad-winged and sharp. Just one pelican,Read more…
Brothers Grimm Backward
what if this 9-5 life is the fairy tale? what if I arrive home and my dog who loves me only slightly less than the ball, shows no interest in my scent? if there is someone else in my houseRead more…
Wait, people live *here*?
Maybe you’ve been up in the remote Rockies where the air straight overhead is a deep ocean blue, and the thin extremity veins of the roads peter out at rock formations that point roundly at the mountains as if toRead more…
One of the Cities of Gold is in Asia
A river winds through it, wide, slow waters churned by constant traffic. > The water is downhill and someone shook the city so that all the gilt glass blocks of the buildings tumbled to its edge. And originally I wasRead more…
How many boroughs in London
Staying in central London sounds like a fab idea. One short walk to the venue where we are offering the training. All the fab delights of modern london. A couple miles to old London (look, kids, Big Ben, Houses ofRead more…
Schism
In Aristotle’s Nichomachean ethics, he says virtues don’t exist as opposites to vices, but among them, in the strain between them. Bravery, for example, is not in the absence of fear, but inside the tension between fear and rage. TemperanceRead more…
A Race
The rumpled folds of the middle of Italy. An undisclosed hour in the night. The thick shutters are locked back against the villa. The big-paned windows, slightly wavy with their slow, liquid sink through time, invite the racing wind intoRead more…