healing: the difference between wounds and scars

over the last month or so i’ve had two conversations with friends (jason and camilo) about healing, wounds, and scars. there’s a lot to unpack and i don’t totally remember which conversations i had with each of them but let me just get into the points:

“the world had to be disenchanted in order for it to be modern”

“the world had to be disenchanted in order for it to be modern.” - huma gupta

flash fiction: my son is a vampire

preface: the comment my dad made below is real. this story is a little experiment in taking things from my actual life and turning them into weird worlds.

on the problems of masculinity: vulnerability and intimacy are off limits to typically masculine men

this is a two-part post about some of the ways that problematic types of masculinity hurts men as well as any society they exist in.

learning more about my healer self

so lately i’ve been leaning (for several reasons, including some experiences with evolutionary leadership) into my healer self.