free range with juan maize

assumptions

assumptions aren’t always loud. they often arrive in disguise— as logic, as memory, as “just being cautious.” but behind the mask, they’re fear with…

Aug 25

leadville

What the fuck was that?

Aug 19

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shepherd

if i could offer advice to my twenty-one year-old self, i'd hesitate. not because i'm void of wisdom– but because your story needs to be written by your…

Aug 6

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July 2025

timing

the purveyor of truth

Jul 2

May 2025

dear father

as we walk your past sometimes i want to ask you if you thought we'd have been friends growing up– i never do. i’m afraid of the answer. you’d probably…

May 28

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between thoughts

someone asked him— “do you remember your happiest moment?” he paused, captured their eyes and smiled— “perhaps the one just before your question…

May 4

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April 2025

bucket list

bucket lists they come dressed in good intention, yet they’ve always whispered of death, simply with better PR. a tidy way to suspend dreams in bullet…

Apr 11

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March 2025

burnout

the truth of your experience lives in the currents beneath the headlines

Mar 23

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peace

anxiety or fear breathes on either side of the space in-between. our forward motion doesn’t demand prescience, it asks only for presence – where the…

Mar 9

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February 2025

pressure

we put a lot of pressure on ourselves— to make something work, to win the moment, to achieve something to be something. oftentimes, we think we need to…

Feb 9

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January 2025

[in]decision

moments before a decision we stand at the precipice of choice — stumbling on our own hesitation. many of us peak over the horizon in an attempt to…

Jan 19

time horizons

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Jan 5

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