- The Mountain Beneath the Castle — 7/16/26 — A castle floating in the Italian night became a lifelong lesson about meaning, memory, and the unseen foundations beneath civilization.
- GlobalGPT – Description — 7/13/26 — What began as a conversation about GPTs slowly transformed into a six-foot globe built from words.
- Can a Conversation Think? — 7/9/26 — After our first Gestations meeting, one unexpected question remained: Can a conversation become a form of intelligence?
- Beyond My Mortal Coil — 7/7/26 — Every meaningful conversation changes those who participate in it. The greatest hope is that the conversation itself survives us.
- A Personal Note to GH and Adrianne — 7/4/26 — I wrote this as an email to GH and Adrianne but I’ve decided to place it here as a journal entry because it addresses several aspects of transtions in life.
- A Handful of Dust — 6/30/26 — It all started in a messaging app while trying to arrange a meeting with an old friend, Christine Larson..
- Listening Across Generations — 6/29/2026 — A brief reflection on unexpected conversations, generational perspectives, and the quiet invitation to listen more deeply..
- The Rabbit, the Question, the Machine — 6/20/26 — A walk-and-talk in a new apartment leads to an unexpected realization: AI may be most valuable not for answering questions, but for helping us discover their shape.
- The Mind Seeks Order — 6/17/26 — A morning reflection on order, attention, and the hidden structure of creativity.
- Ghost Days — 6/4/26 — A story about forgotten civilizations helps me understand why old friends are gathering again around unfinished work and an absent fourth voice.
These four memoir entries are ment to be read as a group.
- The Door I Never Opened — 5/20/26 — At seventy-seven, I finally crossed a threshold I had avoided my entire life and discovered that what frightened me most was not hallucination, but transcendence itself.
- Escher on Mushrooms — 5/20/26 — What began as playful hallucination gradually became a meditation on pattern, cognition, porous borders, and the strange machinery through which the mind constructs reality.
- The Return — 5/20/26 — After psychological disorientation gave way to hunger, friendship, and Frankenstein, I realized that what I truly love is not escape from reality, but deeper participation in it.
- Coda — 5/21/26 — An old-growth forest, Christopher Nolan, and the quiet return to my familiar chair became part of a gentle reentry into ordinary life.
- Still Learning from Ants and Wilson — 4/9/26 — Reading E. O. Wilson, I begin to see that the tension between self-interest and collective belonging is not a flaw in human nature, but one of its deepest creative engines.
- Weaving Meaning — 3/25/26 — Meaning doesn’t sit in objects—it emerges in the relationships between them, and comes alive only when we share attention.
- Learning to Dance with the AI Devil — 3/17/26 — What began as curiosity became a year of learning how to move carefully with a powerful new tool rather than turning away from it.
- The Elephant’s Last Breath — 3/16.26 — A fable about what happens when guidance becomes control—and how life returns only when intention is shared.
- Broiling Pork and Immortality — 3/2/26 — Somewhere between ninety degrees and one hundred forty, between flipping pork and avoiding the smoke alarm, I had invented a new artwork.
- The Rider and the Elephant — 2/22/26 — What Haidt’s Rider and Elephant helped me see about how I work—and what I’ve been getting wrong about it.
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