June 13th 2025 I come to this day with an anxious and open heart. Apprehensive, pleased, curious; I am with family.The energy — the dynamism — it's a trip. I woke this morning to a song… something distant I can't quite “hear,” but I can sense a fuzzy outline. Vulnerability -- My writing with On my left hand lays bare all of my flaws and insecurities.

Gabe shares provocations and implications for life and civic engagement re: Margaret Chandra Kerrison's work on Immersive storytelling, reimagined worlds, narrative placemaking, and beyond.

The author explores the duality of safety and creative liberation, identifying an inner guardian shaped by societal norms that prioritize stability over authenticity. Emphasizing a shift towards prioritizing personal aliveness, they advocate for redefining responsibility and rejecting constrictive economic myths.

The Firm: "Come Alive!" Once Upon a Time in high school (shout out to Claremore, Oklahoma), I dreamed of starting and operating an engineering firm that existed to bring to life the ideas and inventions in your treasured journals and visions. This firm is a risk-taking partner for anyone without the resource to design and produce their innovations. Our core understanding is that this world is beautiful because of myriad creative expressions -- the lower the barriers to creation, the more wholesome and peaceful our world is because we are meant to create, share, celebrate and love.

The Reservoir Runs Dry Energy depleted, the flow stops. Lush creative abundance withers under some rock. Pause. (phase shift) The Beauty of Life: Creation is always at work. The engine of life, creation is both original and cyclical— consistently dynamic. You can rely on creation to show you something new. In the same way, creation will not always show up as you expect.

Flow resistance is creative tension. Put your wine in the glass. Think about chaos. Should the wine blow up, over, and out? Should it stay put? Aboard the ISS, it would dance about, unrestrained. The flow would be fluid unbound. What if your pen behaved the same? The ink just ran, unprovoked. Everyone has experienced the opposite — an expired, generic brand BIC pen that wont write — try as you may to “put an elephant” of pressure down to write, you are left with inkless canyons of letters carved into your page.

Ultra complexity in this day. Longing for simplicity from before--deception, as that simplicity is neither resolution much less reconciliation, just a facade (as the old "garden cities" of urbanism utopia.) The true simplicity, on the other side of our convoluted complexity today, is a profound peace. Worth giving all we have for. Am I willing to give all I have for this. What does that look like? -GC 2023/11