Field notes
The Journal
Notes from the road and the desk: travel, publishing, technology, and whatever refused to stay out of the notebook.
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7 entries, newest first.
SEP 05 2026WRITTEN IN AUSTIN TEXASBridging Community and Scaling WealthThe 12 Tribes + The Ho Chunk Ancestry
AUG 28 2026WRITTEN at the officeThe Craziest Highway Interchange You Can Imagine.Teaching rocks how to think…
AUG 26 2026WRITTEN AT HOMEThe Journey Within. How to Master DiscernmentThe older I get, the less interested I am in what people call themselves and the more interested I am in what remains inside me after they leave. Real guidance brings us closer to ourselves and to God; counterfeit guidance recruits us into someone else’s storm.
AUG 11 2026WRITTEN AT HOMEWhy Ego Death Is ImportantSpiritual knowledge does not automatically equal spiritual development. Ego death isn’t about destroying your personality — it’s about integrating the parts of you that still need to be superior, special, or above other people. And the goal is integration, not escape.
JUL 24 2026SACRED VALLEY, PERUPeru, Part Three: The Red Thread Flute and an Inipi Sweat LodgeA flute maker I’d messaged three months earlier turned out to live three hundred feet across the road — and a red-corded bamboo flute, a kitten at the gate, and a Lakota sweat lodge became the part of Peru I can’t stop thinking about.
JUL 23 2026SACRED VALLEY, PERUPeru, Part Two: Into the Sacred ValleyMissed flights, food poisoning, and a hundred dollars traded for a hundred soles — the chaotic, luminous first days between Cusco and Calca, where the real expedition finally began.
JUL 22 2026LIMA, PERUPeru, Part One: The InvitationHow a single sentence, and a phrase I’d never heard — Land of the Seven Sisters — turned a bucket-list trip into something that felt like a calling.
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