How to live after having eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

How to live after having eaten from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil

This essay explores my personal mental and emotional overwhelm due to the intake and processing of information and knowledge and the ongoing disruptions and changes to our society and culture. Ultimately, I’m seeking to discover how I’m supposed to live open-hearted and open-minded while being committed to intellectual expansion. The ache, the grief, the worry, the fear, and the disorientation that comes with knowledge and change are hard to manage and/or release.

Roadtripping without angst

Roadtripping without angst

Funny how when you're resourced with more time and well, resources, travel (and day-to-day living) is less stressful.

I got a new camera ~ it's time to tell new stories

I got a new camera ~ it's time to tell new stories

A new camera means a new tool to tell new stories.

An updated about/now page

An updated about/now page

What am I up to these days? What can you expect on the blog?

It takes one to know one: Dogma, heresy & fear

It takes one to know one: Dogma, heresy & fear

Going through the pandemic and living in this cultural moment where it feels like down is up and up is down has taught me many things. But one clear lesson has been our human fallibility to closed-minded thinking, group think, mob mentality, and tyranny.

Finding Home ~ The conclusion

Finding Home ~ The conclusion

Then it all became rather obvious. We’re the adventurers and explorers, the migrators without property. We’ve built flexibility into our lives and our work. We would move to my parents. We’d sail the boat of our family life into the security of their port.

My own migration story

My own migration story

Living in Montreal with no family, no mountains and no purchase of a property to anchor us, the question of “where is home” became insistent, especially after I lost the religious beliefs of my childhood.