Ecological Intelligence
How intelligence works inside living systems: knowing, being, and doing as relational practices, not individual traits to measure.
Coherence
Meaning, values, and ethical orientation as lived practice: coherence across knowing, being, and doing, without doctrine. Spiritual intelligence, Possibility Quotient, and POZibility, the knowledge that comes from navigating precarity with integrity.
Outer Orbit (Coherent)
Where inner and relational work meet the world, through ecological leadership, civic imagination, and systems thinking.
Relational Orbit (Inclusive)
How we relate, intimately, professionally, and communally, through hospitality, belonging, boundaries, and listening.
Inner Orbit (Authentic)
Your inner landscape of self-awareness, values, and truth-telling, where identity, clarity, and self-trust take root.
December Solstice: Tilting Back Toward the Sun
On the winter solstice — after seven winters in Iowa and a cold return to Northern Kentucky — this is a reflection on rebuilding, play, and Creative Recess as a commons for imagination and care. Nothing suddenly resolves, but the direction changes.
World AIDS Day 2025: Composting Grief, Disruption, and Hope Into Creative Recess
World AIDS Day 2025 feels personal as HIV services face new political attacks. My own diagnosis cracked me open and ultimately became the compost for Creative Recess. This reflection explores rupture, healing, community care, and choosing possibility.
My Second Soberversary: The Art of Beginning Again (Creative Recess 2.0 Begins)
Today is my soberversary — a quiet threshold, a return to myself, and the beginning of Creative Recess 2.0. Sobriety didn’t just pull me out of old patterns; it restored my imagination. This is Day One of something new — and something wickedly wonderful begins this Tuesday.
✨ Honoring Zero HIV Stigma Day 2025: A Call to Curiosity, Clarity, Creativity, and Community
Sobriety is Golden
On this Juneteenth, I pause in recognition of the profound legacy of Black freedom, resistance, and imagination. As I reflect on personal liberation through sobriety, I honor the ongoing struggles and triumphs of those who came before me — and the work that still lies ahead.