These are the works that begin with a rupture—when something you believed starts to feel untrue, or too small. Awakening isn’t always dramatic. Sometimes it’s quiet. Sometimes it’s a sentence you can’t unhear. But once it happens, nothing is ever quite the same.
Each of these pieces traces the moment a story broke—and what emerged in its place. They’re not about rebellion. They’re about clarity. And the cost of seeing clearly.
The SPARK Not Meant to IGNITE
“I didn’t wake up in chains. I woke up in comfort. But I still wasn’t free.”
Not all sparks are meant to burn. Some are meant to interrupt. This piece confronts the illusion of freedom for those stuck in the middle—the 19% who fuel systems they can’t quite escape. It’s a personal reckoning with ambition, identity, and the machinery of performance we inherit and enforce. What begins as a professional awakening becomes a spiritual one, asking: what do we do with the roles we outgrow? And who do we become when we stop performing and start becoming?
Woke!?
“To be woke is not to be informed. It is not to be outraged. It is not to be on the ‘right side’ of history. To be woke is to see.”
Before it was a label, “woke” was a moment. A fracture. A fusion. A shift so deep it couldn’t be undone. This essay traces the experience of awakening—not as ideology, but as rupture and return. It distinguishes between seeing the system and living differently because of it. Through the lens of pain, love, and cultural distortion, it asks: what do we do once we’ve seen clearly—and why is staying awake so much harder than it sounds?
The Longest Con
“The MAN doesn’t have to keep you running. He only has to make you afraid of stopping.”
This essay names the slowest, most effective deception in human history: The Race. Not the biological one—the systemic one. It explores how power structures across history turned movement into competition, belonging into performance, and spirit into survival. Through cycles of scarcity, spectacle, and control, it shows how The MAN’s greatest trick wasn’t control—it was convincing us we had no other option. But if we didn’t choose The Race, can we still choose to leave it?
The MAN We Choose to Forget
“The MAN is not just a force outside us. He is a condition we allow to take root.”
This piece confronts the systemic patterns we’ve grown used to: exploitation, neglect, and power disguised as policy. It maps how malice, apathy, and negligence are not just political traits—but spiritual conditions we absorb and sometimes replicate. The MAN isn’t just out there; he’s in here—in our silence, in our justification, in our hesitation to interrupt harm. This isn’t a call-out. It’s a mirror. One that asks: once we see clearly, what will we choose to carry?
Equity – The Graceless God
“Equity does not promise salvation. It only believes in growth.”
This piece exposes the illusion we’ve mistaken for justice: a culture of endless leverage, where “equity” no longer means fairness—but acceleration without rest. Through the lens of debt, hustle culture, and the myth of ownership, it reveals how we’ve come to worship growth at all costs. This isn’t just economic critique—it’s spiritual deconstruction. It asks what kind of god we’ve built when rest feels like failure, and what kind of life we might live if we stopped running.