We don't just lack third spaces, we've lost far more than that.
I came out of the queer late 90's LA punk scene, and I can tell you exactly what made it special — and that I've spent years trying to find something like it again.
Journal
Notes from the practice.
Essays and poems on narrative therapy, Taoism, sexuality, and the unglamorous work of actually changing.
The Masculine Sexual Rewiring Program
A 12-week protocol for men in their late forties and beyond — moving from anxiety-driven sexuality to grounded, embodied confidence. Breath, belief, nervous system, body.
Eros beyond Cartography: Fragments For Straight Men Who Love, Support, and are Allies to TransWomen
If you’re a straight man who’s fallen in love with a trans woman, the questions you keep asking, may not be the right ones. I see this all the time in my work, so let me help flush…
A Calming Gateway Your Art Practice
Welcome, before we begin, a poem - Often I am permitted to return to a Meadow By Robert Duncan “as if it were a scene made-up by the mind, that is not mine, but is a made place, that…
You Will Meet Me Again
You will meet me again, somewhere seemingly unfamiliar, and further north than you’ve been ...It is there I waited for you, in perfect...
The Mountain Poems of Stonehouse
We often think that creating art will help us find peace, its so taken for granted its laughable. We are sent messages that if you create...
One Hundred Useful Dilemas
Oblique Strategies began as an experimental card game that encourages tangential thinking in order to rouse the intuitive spirit and...
Wu Wei
A Zen student went to a temple and asked how long it would take him to gain enlightenment if he joined the temple. 10 years, said the Zen...
THE SOUL OF A TREE: A MASTER WOODWORKERS REFLECTIONS
George Nakashima (May 24, 1905 – June 15, 1990) was an American woodworker and architect. His innovations in the design of furniture ...
The ecstatic solitude and final, magnificent days of OR-93
On a desolate, unknown and wild stretch of borderland between California and Oregon, in early spring, when the first whispers of running...
Psychopoeia Fragment
Psychotherapy is a signifier with myriad connotations. Here the space casts off many of these assumptions and transmutes itself into a...
Towards an Anarcho-Taoist Approach to Therapy
Thirty spokes meet in the hub Where the wheel isn’t is where it’s useful. Hollowed out, makes a bowl, Where the pot’s not, is where it’s...
You are the universe hiding from itself
Alan Watts curated one of the most succinct thought experiments at the intersection of desire and self. I encourage everyone to do this...
Fragments of Taoist Therapy
The essence of Taoism is harmony. A harmonious existence for a Taoist, does not exclude the messy, the wild or the irrational. It makes...
Born of Fire/The Fire Ladder
I sit down write and we are in the kindling of jejune days. Twelve months ago, we sat in quarantine as unprecedented fires terrorized our...
Somewhere There is a Spring
If you have been beaten by the sun Always remember Somewhere there is a spring ⠀ Somewhere there is a spring And in this life you must...
Consider The Burl
“Burl is the result of loss of orderly impulse in the tree, so that the grain is a tangle.” - Wallace Nutting “Likely the result of a...
The Transformation of Chuang Chou
Once Chaung Chou dreamt he was a butterfly, a butterfly flitting and fluttering around, happy with himself and doing as he pleased. He...
Dude, Level up your Jing
Contemporary systems of knowledge are geared towards medicalization and pathology, in terms of science and psychology, respectively. In addi
The Moon at My Window - On Solitude
The thief left it behind: The moon at my window. -Ryōkan Regardless of who you are you will experience loneliness and being alone....
Axis Tempus Meditation - To Counter Linear Time
In a squirrely capitalist culture we are en-tranced by time. We believe it to be linear - the future, the past and, the present. We want...