About Me

I am a fierce believer in the power of writing––or, perhaps more deeply, in the power of story. Both telling and absorbing (or hearing; or watching; or whatever be its form) story is one of the most powerful and defining things in which we as humans engage. It is more than entertainment, more than imagination, and more than simple education/exploration. It is arguably one of THE underpinnings of our existence, of what it means to be human. To engage in story is to look at ourselves, at our fellow humans, and at Being around us; it is to look at how these things interact, and how they have interacted, and how they might possibly interact or be seen to interact, and what that might mean, and how it might change us, and if in telling the stories we might preemptively change it (assuming it is bad, which is arguably the purest and highest form of story: to spark a chain of thoughts creating actions creating a being somewhat better, somewhat less-defined by weakness or suffering or blindness, than it otherwise might have been. . . .)

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