Fie upon the idea of “lanes!”*

Overlaps are where it’s at.

*Except please don’t crash into me with your motor vehicle; I’ve had enough of that experience.

More & Less is a newsletter dedicated to exploring healing, humanization, and widening the main stream.

After getting pummeled by a tractor-trailer and living to tell the tale (hooray!) I found myself skewed. Although I looked more or less the same in the mirror — the occasional one-sided droop notwithstanding — my interior orientation was, in a word, whack.

Welcome, it turns out, to mTBI… mild brain injury. Mild in this case, is both accurate and wildly misleading. A mild brain injury is mild compared only to the other options of brain injury, none of which I recommend. Mild though it may be, this injury proved to be a doozy of a thing to live with.

Many are the lenses consciousness offers humans, and when we use them in combination we can see some amazing things. But we have to keep choosing to.

As a generality, I love overlaps and edges and intersections. I am not down with the dismemberment and compartmentalization of human experience, relentless binary thinking to the exclusion of feeling and wisdom. That’s why the name of this newsletter isn’t Either/Or. We got plenty of that out there, thanks.

I seek to communicate healing by way of experience and observation. Tools include doodles, poems, and commentary. Results vary.

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Know this1: The ideas expressed here are not stagnant, and should be considered as exploration, fleeting opinion, earnest asking, and/or play. I’m sharing my thoughts and feelings. I’m not advising you to do anything.

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