The Videos
The unseen frameworks that shape human experience, surfaced one video at a time.
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I live on Decatur Island in relative isolation in the Salish Sea with constrained, sometimes no, access.
An island reveals structure better than any book, making visible the internal support system typically obscured by convenience. I did not move to the edge of the map to escape the world. I came here to see it clearly. Every requirement must be anticipated, transported, and maintained by me. The consequences for neglect are expressed immediately - sometimes permanently.
Each person has a structure that operates as the underlying system through which their life is sustained, myself included. The island does not teach this in any didactic sense; it simply removes the conditions that allows the structure to be ignored.
From here, I do one kind of work: I identify the structures people operate from, but rarely see.
Language governs. Your words author the cognitive patterns that quietly organize your behavior and your outcomes. What is recognized can be claimed. What is claimed is owned. What is owned is authored. Nothing changes without authority, and the pen has been in your hand the whole time. You write your life with your words.
Live deliberately.
Writings from recesses so deep, a disclaimer should be given. I write to confront me - that arbitrary, ambiguous, illusion that lays claim to petty desires, pedantic sophistry, and the flimsy pleasures of empty promises. You'll find me in the space between the words.
The unseen frameworks that shape human experience, surfaced one video at a time.
Click here to watch moreAn island is fundamentally isolated. No bridges reach here. An inconvenience to the expert, by design to the old soul.
Out here, consciousness sets the never-known agenda, chores become truth playing in the rain, and trees rustle with the wisdom of a mystery, yet all too familiar.
Decatur's location dissolves the seduction of bargaining for existence that blurs merit with overinvestment.
For me, this is not the edge of the map, this is the vantage point of seeing clearly.
Your life, every one's life, is not collateral. Therefore, everything you write here is confidential, and remains between you and me. All submissions receive replies. I appreciate your willingness to engage.