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Notes from the middle of things

Irregular pieces about thresholds and what they ask. Everything here opens on Substack, where it lives.

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There is no schedule. Things get written when they are ready, which is sometimes several in a month and sometimes not for a while.

July 28, 2026

What the Doorway Asks

A threshold is not a problem to be solved. It is a place with its own weather, and it asks something of anyone standing in it.

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July 9, 2026

Notes on Walking Slowly

Something in a conversation changes when both people are facing the same direction, and neither one is in a hurry to arrive.

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June 17, 2026

The Midwife Does Not Push

On the difference between making something happen and staying close while it happens on its own terms.

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May 30, 2026

When the Old Shape Loosens

Most of the discomfort people bring me is not a sign that something has gone wrong. It is the ordinary feeling of an arrangement that has finished its work.

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May 12, 2026

Against Optimisation

A short piece on why I do not describe this work in terms of performance, and what I say instead when people ask what they will get out of it.

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April 21, 2026

Rooms That Hold More Than One Truth

What I have learned about sitting with couples and teams where two accounts of the same situation are both, in their way, accurate.

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