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I’ve walked an unusual path—optometrist, artist, life model, Father Christmas, and seeker. Each role has peeled back another layer, revealing a deeper thread of presence that now shapes my writing.

My journey began with a restless thirst for travel. In the early 1990s, during a season of leaving one life behind and stepping into another, a quiet encounter with the elephant-headed god Ganesha marked a turning point. What started as wanderlust became a pilgrimage of inner discovery—through beauty, intensity, silence, and shadow, including years in a demanding spiritual community.

What remains is simple: a commitment to honesty, authenticity, and communicating what is true. In 2022, I joined three others in a small experiment of meeting in sha

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A Judgement of Powers (Inheritance of Magic)

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An Interrupted Life: The Diaries, 1941-1943; and Letters from Westerbork

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I enjoyed the journey of Alice and Peter — though more out of curiosity than from a real sense of connection. There’s a strong sense of artificiality, which probably reflects that their descent into Hell is as much metaphorical as literal. Hell itself ...more
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Pullman’s imagination remains extraordinary. The Rose Field is full of luminous ideas — a world where myth, science, and philosophy intertwine. For much of the journey, I was captivated by the depth of the world-building and the ambition of its quest ...more
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I enjoyed the journey of Alice and Peter — though more out of curiosity than from a real sense of connection. There’s a strong sense of artificiality, which probably reflects that their descent into Hell is as much metaphorical as literal. Hell itself ...more
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