Into The Mystic

Into The Mystic

Nov 15, 2025 | Spoken Poetry

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And things end,
because they begin,
and the seasons pass me by
while I grow older,
not necessarily bolder,
because time is a circle
that spins,
and I chase it,
no one wins
this kind of race,
round and round I go,
I feel slow
so I attempt to pace
my self,
or I may face
myself,
and I would rather not,
because time slips through
my hands
as do my plans,
I am a poem
at midnight,
refusing to let yesterday go
or accept that what I feel
is all I know,
and yet life is not a cognitive affair,
but a dance with myself
on a planet that spins
in outer space,
and I’m anonymous
without a face,
waiting for the bus
to bring me to the place
I’m supposed to be,
an adult version of me,
a captain of a marvelous vessel,
exploring everything,
the sea
and gravity
and what it means to be
and not to be
in the same breath
for as long as I can
before death
when the fog horn whistle blows
and I sail into the mystic.

About Spaciology

Spaciology is not abstract theory; rather, it is a practice you can feel.

  • Inside: Pause, breathe, notice.
  • Outside: Design rooms, rituals, and agendas that slow the spin and invite care.
  • Between us: Make dialogue a place where different truths can live together long enough to teach something.

Ultimately, leadership is the art of making space for what’s important (for everyone) and letting that clarity shape the next step. When we change the spaces from which we lead, our strategies change with them.

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Dust in the Wind

Dust in the Wind

Oct 23, 2025 | Spoken Poetry

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There is nothing
real except the recognition
that real is what we feel
and not what we think
because to follow a thought,
even our own,
is to follow a ghost
and yet most
of us cling
to this thing,
this idea of what would be
and how we,
you and me,
would see
things differently
at a future date
in a place
where laughter must rule,
work is for the fool,
and tragedy a tool
in someone else’s tool box,
and we would dream
and row our boats,
merrily,
down a stream
to moments
that contain unbridled joy
and song,
heroes
and suns
that never set
if only we could let
ourselves
embrace
the certainty
of absolute truth
and the reality
that humanity
understands
grand plans
and the speed of light,
the mysteries of death
and the dark night
of the soul
within the body
of life
that holds us
as we breathe
and one day die
in the desert
that is space,
a place
without time
within which we chase
ourselves down dark alleys
past pubs and salons
where we offer comfort
to ourselves and one another
because there is no stream,
no dream
or cream
that can erase
the wrinkles of time
that wrap themselves
around our face,
creating space
for tears to hide
outside
as we age
inside the cage,
and yet if we look to see,
and not just to exist,
we can choose to explore
what it means to be or not to be
and resist
the urge
to explain to others
what things mean
and how to experience the mystery
and the tragedy
that is life,
because what we think is real
is merely a thought
that got caught,
and so we if can let that idea go
and step back from what we think we know,
we create more choices,
more spaces,
more voices
in the bittersweet symphony
of life
on a sphere
in a galaxy
too far
and too near,
so enigmatic
and dear,
neither there nor here,
spinning within
and without
year after year
until we are
dust in the wind

About Spaciology

Spaciology is not abstract theory; rather, it is a practice you can feel.

  • Inside: Pause, breathe, notice.
  • Outside: Design rooms, rituals, and agendas that slow the spin and invite care.
  • Between us: Make dialogue a place where different truths can live together long enough to teach something.

Ultimately, leadership is the art of making space for what’s important (for everyone) and letting that clarity shape the next step. When we change the spaces from which we lead, our strategies change with them.

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One-Hit Wonders

One-Hit Wonders

Oct 12, 2025 | Spoken Poetry

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I suppose we are all one hit wonders,
each heart beat
within every human
unique and melodic
in its own way,
every sunset poetic,
every tear prophetic,
each dream sacred
within the undulating folds
of each day
wrapped inside the memories of a universe,
composed of quantum
strings
that sing
across a Milky Way
on a Tuesday
afternoon
entertaining Thursdays
on Friday morning
when Mondays are forgotten
in the twilight of our lives
as we grapple with the questions
we were too afraid to ask
ourselves
when we chased time
and space
only to realize
that what we think
is not how we feel,
or real,
in the ways we were taught
in schools
with arbitrary rules
protected by men
and their tools,
fools
carrying ideas on their backs,
building bombs
and launching attacks
on outer spaces
that bleed
within hearts
that need
sunsets
and tears
more than numbers and years,
rivers and dreams
more than pots of gold,
laughter and love
more than certainty,
because rainbows
never grow old
nor do hearts
that open and fold
in a universe that may be black
yet need not be cold,
because the meaning of life
is in between the spaces we see,
it’s what we hold
and what we breathe,
blurring the difference
between you and me
earth,
sky
and sea,
as we wave
within another
for eternity,
blades of grass
swaying in open spaces
carrying the remnants
and faint traces
of the lives lost
and the cost
because silence
is a sound
that feels hollow,
and we are what we follow.

About Spaciology

Spaciology is not abstract theory; rather, it is a practice you can feel.

  • Inside: Pause, breathe, notice.
  • Outside: Design rooms, rituals, and agendas that slow the spin and invite care.
  • Between us: Make dialogue a place where different truths can live together long enough to teach something.

Ultimately, leadership is the art of making space for what’s important (for everyone) and letting that clarity shape the next step. When we change the spaces from which we lead, our strategies change with them.

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The Sun Will Never Set

The Sun Will Never Set

Jul 12, 2025 | Spoken Poetry

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There is a world inside
every song 
experienced in every heart
within the souls
of those who live on planets
that spin
inside galaxies that turn,
dreams that burn
within
the hopes and fears
of lost men at sea,
always searching
for the elusive ‘me’
within the me
that cannot change
because it must not die
nor must we try
to decipher
because
there is space
in every time,
time in every space,
love in every trace
of what once was
alive and real,
tangible and could feel
the wind,
the fire,
the earth,
and the sea
that churns beneath
the sky,
the dome,
the envelope,
the home,
the beauty
amidst the fear
behind the smile,
perched on the tear
of the woman
who holds
and carries the sphere,
the here
beyond the now,
past the how,
outside the known,
beneath the love,
outside thought,
before yesterday
and tomorrow
exists a universal sorrow
that once one is,
one eventually will not,
and yet galaxies will spin
and light will travel
and the sun will never set.

About Spaciology

Spaciology is not abstract theory; rather, it is a practice you can feel.

  • Inside: Pause, breathe, notice.
  • Outside: Design rooms, rituals, and agendas that slow the spin and invite care.
  • Between us: Make dialogue a place where different truths can live together long enough to teach something.

Ultimately, leadership is the art of making space for what’s important (for everyone) and letting that clarity shape the next step. When we change the spaces from which we lead, our strategies change with them.

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Self-Reflection in Marketing

Self-Reflection in Marketing

Aug 20, 2023 | Marketing

Marketing is a business domain not only for promoting brands, products, and services but also as a platform for organizational self-reflection, engaging the entire staff in the process.

Why the need for self-reflection? Frankly, Western society shies away in general from genuine self-reflection, which I contend cannot be captured in a social media self-post curated in a local Starbucks. Maybe it can, of course, but let’s assume it cannot happen there.

The kind of self-reflection to which I am referring–at either the personal or organizational level–begins with simple questions, such as, “Why are we doing this?” Honestly, I have sat in many conference calls during which it occurred to me that several key elements were not clear to me (and obviously to others, too).

Let me use a specific example. Staff have developed what they believe is an incredible program, priced it according to what they feel is its value, and now present it to the marketing “guy” or “gal” to promote it.

The incredible part of this true story is that the marketing person was never consulted during program development or in any discussions related to its hypothetical value. Yes, I said “hypothetical,” because “value” is not something that exists “out there” in space and time, independent of our perceptions, preconceived notions, or cultural framework.

In many cases, value is quite arbitrary. Why can one museum charge $20 admission, whereas a seemingly similar institution cannot move anyone’s proverbial needle at half that price? Perception is reality.

While I am not a big fan of the word, “should,” I believe it applies here in that marketing should never be the final step in any process where revenue is concerned. When done well and from a systems perspective, marketing can invite deep self-reflection BEFORE (as opposed to after) money and time are spent.

About Spaciology

Spaciology is not abstract theory; rather, it is a practice you can feel.

  • Inside: Pause, breathe, notice.
  • Outside: Design rooms, rituals, and agendas that slow the spin and invite care.
  • Between us: Make dialogue a place where different truths can live together long enough to teach something.

Ultimately, leadership is the art of making space for what’s important (for everyone) and letting that clarity shape the next step. When we change the spaces from which we lead, our strategies change with them.

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