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Because now is all we have
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Fixing the Unfixable
What to say when there's nothing you can say
Dec 7, 2025
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What Are You Waiting For?
On the lives we don’t live, and what it means to live as an artist
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What I Now Know
On my dad’s 70th birthday, I think about legacy and the people who shape us.
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You can’t always get what you want
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Embracing Free Fall
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Fixing the Unfixable
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What is True Now?
For the last few weeks, I’ve been training for some inexplicable event.
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Holy Shit, I’m Alive
I’ve been living in bubbles lately.
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Life's Masquerade
On the costumes we share, and the ones we leave behind
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How do you know what happens to you isn’t good?
Notes on randomness, beauty, and the next wave
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What Are You Waiting For?
On the lives we don’t live, and what it means to live as an artist
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What is True Now?
For the last few weeks, I’ve been training for some inexplicable event.
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Holy Shit, I’m Alive
I’ve been living in bubbles lately.
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Life's Masquerade
On the costumes we share, and the ones we leave behind
Jun 25
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How do you know what happens to you isn’t good?
Notes on randomness, beauty, and the next wave
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A Dream Unborn
On grieving an unrequited future
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Playing Reindeer Games
A birthday note
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God is in the Trees
On Creation From Destruction
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Love & Life
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What Are You Waiting For?
On the lives we don’t live, and what it means to live as an artist
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A Dream Unborn
On grieving an unrequited future
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Maybe
On Learning to Hold It All Loosely
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If you can keep your head about you
On trusting your training
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The other side of grief
Learning to taste again
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The Purge
A New Year's Resolution
Dec 28, 2025
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In any given moment, the strongest dream in that moment wins
I’ve been thinking about this quote from Dave Chapelle for the last few weeks, “In your life, in any given moment, the strongest dream in that moment…
Dec 20, 2024
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I Love Lou
I married myself a few weeks ago. Well, if we are being technical, I am in an eternal partnership with myself, but the sentiment is the same. I chose a…
Jul 26, 2024
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Expecting the Unexpected
Lou's Guide to Cancer
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Fixing the Unfixable
What to say when there's nothing you can say
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Now that you no longer have to be perfect, you can just be good
On joining the rhythms of the world
Oct 15, 2025
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How to reset your nervous system
It’s ironic, but I wrote all of this in December before I had the faintest idea I had cancer.
Mar 5, 2025
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How to travel alone
I love traveling alone. And, like anything, there is an art to doing it. I wouldn’t deign to say that I’ve mastered it. But I’ve reached a point from…
Dec 10, 2024
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I Love Lou
I married myself a few weeks ago. Well, if we are being technical, I am in an eternal partnership with myself, but the sentiment is the same. I chose a…
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In me, the universe experiences itself
(a poem I wrote in a dream)
Jun 14
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The eye, given everything, sees nothing
A poem inspired by what's left
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Silvering
a poem for passing
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Life is not empty
On collapse, creation, and healing from a poem a day
Dec 22, 2025
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The butterfly dream
A palindrome of life and death
Oct 30, 2025
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the ebb
a poem to pause
Sep 24, 2025
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and still the figs ripen
a poem for the end of summer
Aug 25, 2025
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august triptych
poems at summer's edge
Aug 20, 2025
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