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Dream of an Island Adventure

  ​ From Journal Entry 1/17/2026 ​ I was on this island. And when I say island. The water was so clear, sparkling under the sun. I was riding shotgun in some kind of truck, a Jeep maybe, with this woman who seemed to know the place like the back of her hand. She was my guide, my local expert, breezing through everything. ​ Except the roads? They weren't exactly roads. Or, they were, but they were completely submerged! I'm talking deep enough that the truck was practically underwater. We'd drive through these underwater paths, the water swirling around us, completely covering the vehicle. And the craziest part? She just kept driving. No hesitation, no fear. The truck just powered through every single time. It was wild! I was probably clutching the dashboard with wide eyes, thinking, "Is this for real?!" ​ We eventually pulled up to this little restaurant, still feeling like we’d just surfaced from a deep-sea expedition. We sat down, and she ordered noodles....

The Beloved and Lover: A Game of Hide and Seek

  Go as deep inside of me as you want Penetrate my core Explore  When you reach the Edge of me Know it's not Where I end But it is where I begin My mystery Is your doing  My history  Is you becoming Undone in me Where there is no you And there is no me There is only I We both like This intimate game Of hide and seek When you find me Then it is my turn To find you We invented the game And the world is our Playground And when we are bored With it or want to hide From the world  We know the secret Entrance to a secret  World that only lovers Know how to find Our mystery  Is the key to Understanding life's  Mysteries Oh if everyone just Gave up the silly games Of the world  And joined in with The lovers for a little Game of hide and seek This world would vanish Into nonexistent All beings would become Invisible cloaked in Joseph's coat Of many colors  The dead would rise out of their graves  And sing Hallelujah  Moses would come do...

My Spiritual Encounter with The Man in the Room

  When Dementia Becomes a Spiritual Encounter From Journal Entry 8/2025 ​ I was sitting in my client's home, a space I’ve grown so familiar with through the quiet rhythms of caregiving. If you’ve ever cared for someone with dementia and aphasia, you know the specific kind of heartbreak that comes with it…the way words become "scrambled," or how a person’s thoughts seem to swim just out of their reach before they can find the surface. ​ But on this day, the experience shifted from the physical to the metaphysical. ​ Suddenly, I felt the unmistakable presence of a man in the room. He wasn't just a "feeling"…it was a weight, a personhood. He began to mumble, his speech broken and fragmented, echoing the exact same aphasia that my client struggles with every day. The entity seemed lost, caught in the same fog of confusion that has settled over my client’s life. ​ Then, he reached out and touched my arm. ​ In that moment, I didn't feel fear; I felt ...