Have you ever sat with yourself? I mean really sat with yourself and asked, "What is the most honest way to encounter another human being?" I hadn't either. Not really, until recently. I had spent years asking different questions, wondering how to understand people, how to recognize character, how to know when something felt true … Continue reading Human to Human – Part One: The Stories We Have Already Written
Awareness
Notes on a Manufactured Lover
There is something people misunderstand about writers, or at least about writers like me. They think I spend my life arranging words, tweaking sentences, chasing the perfect line. I do that, but that is not the heart of it. The real work happens before anything hits the page, in the quiet moments where someone assumes … Continue reading Notes on a Manufactured Lover
The Pursuit Itself Becomes the Confession
The more I observe, the more I realize that people are constantly revealing themselves. Not through what they say, but through what they pursue. Through what they cling to. Through what they refuse to release long after it has stopped serving them. The things people spend their lives chasing tell a far more honest story … Continue reading The Pursuit Itself Becomes the Confession
When What Once Felt Safe No Longer Feels Right
There are some losses that do not simply hurt you. They initiate you. Losing my father changed the texture of my life in ways I still do not fully have language for, even now. Not only emotionally, but physically, spiritually, psychologically. It was as though something fundamental between myself and the world had been removed … Continue reading When What Once Felt Safe No Longer Feels Right
The Credence Frequency – An Evolving Story by T.A Hoyt
Before I wrote the piece below, someone asked me a simple question while asking me about working on artwork for the cover of my book: “What is The Credence Frequency actually about?” And the truth is, I realized I had never answered that directly. Not really. I could explain the characters. I could explain the … Continue reading The Credence Frequency – An Evolving Story by T.A Hoyt
Coffee Shop Conversation
I think if I’m honest, some part of this began weeks ago sitting in a coffee shop, somewhere in the middle of a conversation that lingered longer in me than I expected it to. One of those rare conversations that moves effortlessly between darkness and lightness, heavy things and playful things. The kind where it … Continue reading Coffee Shop Conversation
Power That Moves Between
Matriarchy, by definition, is a system where women hold primary power and authority. But that definition is where most people stop, and where the misunderstanding begins. It sounds simple, almost clinical, like a clean reversal of something we already know, as if all that is required is a shift in position, a rearranging of roles, … Continue reading Power That Moves Between
Standing in the Question
There are moments in life that don’t arrive with clarity… they arrive with pressure. Not loud, not chaotic, but steady. Persistent. Like something unseen has placed its hand between your shoulder blades and is asking, quietly but firmly, are you going to stay here, or are you going to move? Not tomorrow. Not eventually. Now. … Continue reading Standing in the Question
The Definition of Life by Default
The term “default” comes with a few definitions: Failing to fulfill an obligation.Being declared “in default.”Or the preset option your computer chooses when no one bothers to make a different choice. So here’s the question I’ve been sitting with: What does it mean when you start living life by default? Is default the weight of … Continue reading The Definition of Life by Default
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