Essays
Deep Life Reflections
Essays inspired by cinema, literature, and culture.
Every Friday, I publish Deep Life Reflections, an essay sharing a single idea drawn from cinema, literature, and culture.
I’ve loved films and books for as long as I can remember. They have been lifelong companions. I’ve always believed art and culture reveal much about about how we live. Deep Life Reflections is my contribution: one idea worth your time.
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How We Spend Our Lives
To commit our time to one thing is to make it unavailable to everything else.
The Burning Has Already Been Done
Once we begin removing difficult words and images from public view, we also begin deciding what others are allowed to understand.
Beyond Utopia
A society without doubt can quickly become a prison, and a mind without doubt can become its own smaller version of one.
Way Down in the Hole
Institutions turn people into roles, then punish them when they can no longer perform them.
Towards Feeling Normal Again
Recovery is not a return to who we were. Instead, it is the steady, careful work of learning how to move forward changed.
From the Heart
When life has other plans: a reflection on open-heart surgery, the recovery, and the people who helped me through it.