Creative Recess

Six Months Back in the Bluegrass

Being back in the Bluegrass hasn’t felt like a reset or a retreat. It’s felt like a settling — the kind that happens underground, quietly, without announcement. Roots don’t ask for applause. They ask for time.

Creative Recess, Human Rights, and the Inner Work of Global Change

Creative Recess explores how encounter-based practice complements human rights, the SDGs, and the Inner Development Goals by cultivating the relational conditions needed for ethical global change.

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.