Tagged: identity

A name that found me at a waterfall in Thailand. The inner work, poems, and presence practices that form the foundation of everything else.

Identity conflict and voice reclamation. Wanting to speak from origin while addicted to performance.

Severance as initiation. Separation from inherited identity through rupture and self-reinvention.

Integration arc. Reframing creation as presence, intimacy, and risk over optimization.

Multiplicity without a controller—identity as forces arising and dissolving moment-to-moment.

Cognitive overload seeking rescue—90s boom-bap aesthetic narrating sensory saturation and dissociation.

Vitality versus mortality framed as play—learning through motion rather than control.

Future-orientation as selective blindness—what's excluded to feel okay.

A life in verses—birth, growth, travel, fatherhood, loss, and the ongoing search for meaning.

Identity tension between assimilation and authenticity—blending in as survival versus exposure.