Writings

Welcome.

This is where I share my writing on the “altared” landscapes of our lives — the places where history, memory, grief, and magic meet. I write from a sociocultural, decolonial, and ecological perspective, but also from lived experience: the losses and awakenings that shape how we move through the world.

My work lives at the crossroads of cultural anthropology, cultural geography, history, decolonial thought, and spiritual ecology. It is a companion for people who navigate complexity—who sense the world through layered histories, symbolic textures, and the wisdom that sits in places.

You can also learn more about my books.

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Here, you’ll find essays about

• thresholds and portals
• creative survival and resilience
• racial and ritual geographies/place and power
• grief, memory, and kinship
• landscapes that hold our stories
• the search for belonging in disorienting times

I publish reflective essays, place-based stories, fieldnotes, and glimpses from my forthcoming book, Magic Cities: Havana, Miami, and the Capitol — Race, Ritual, and Resistance.

I also share insights from Core-Respondence, an embodied framework I’m developing that helps people cultivate deeper relationship with place, navigate inner seasons, and recognize the portals woven throughout their lives.

You might also find:

• dispatches from walking tours
• notes on ritual, memory, and public space
• explorations of altars, monuments, and sacred geographies
• meditations on race, power, and repair
• seasonal reflections from Western Massachusetts, Miami, and beyond

Who This Is For

• For people who feel the tug of liminal spaces.
• For those navigating grief or change–and especially changes to their environment/surroundings/community.
• For wanderers, rooted ones, exiles, returning ones.
• For people who sense the world through story, symbol, and relationships with the web of life.
• For anyone seeking belonging—to place, to memory, to community, to themselves.

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