Writings
The Landscape of LanguageWorking on getting my blog posts up – come back soon!


Lineage: The Idea of the Ideal, Part IIa: A Digression into Etymology
Another digression, this time into the realm of etymology. Which is, of course, the study of history. Which is the study of Dreaming. Oh, and caves.

Lineage: The Idea of the Ideal, Part II: The Lens of the Personal
A digression into personal lineage, woven with chosen lineage: a story about my father.

Lineage: Jung and the Idea of the Ideal, Part I
The underlying violence of the idea of the ideal from Plato to Jung’s theories of the collective unconscious and archetypes.

The Importance of Lineage – Naming Racism/Racial Bias in My Chosen Lineage of Dreaming
The imperative of exploring our lineages [including chosen]. Let’s start with Jung.

That Kind of “Thinking” – Racist, Violent, In My Own Head
Where to fight race brutality – right here in my own body, right here in the field of dreaming.

Dispatches: Wielding Power
The other pandemic that attacks the breath – racism and police brutality. How power is/can be wielded and how to change the dynamics of power.

Dispatches: From the Pandemic – Where We Are Supposed To Be
Even if we can’t be where we were meant to be (I’m supposed to be in Oregon tonight), there is still a place to be.

Dispatches: From the Pandemic – Have All of It
When there is a communal traumatic experience, like this pandemic, often all we can do is to get through.

Dispatches: From the Pandemic – Starting with the Basics
How dreams can help us as we are all asked hold all that the pandemic is handing us – which is so much.

Locating “Meaning” in Dreams
Why we won’t really find what a dream “means” in a dream dictionary because it is not really the image in the dream that the dream is interested in.