Letters from the Breach
Reflections on healing, servant leadership, and a world in transition.
Letters from the Breach explores what happens when unresolved pressure—personal, familial, or systemic—can no longer be contained. Fissures form quietly over time through stress, silence, fear, and avoidance. When their root causes are left unexamined, those fissures widen. Eventually, they become breaches.
A breach is not a failure of character or loyalty. It is a signal—a moment when truth breaks through structures that could no longer hold it. These letters are written from that place, with an emphasis on cause and effect, discernment, and responsibility rather than blame or spectacle.
Earlier writings reflect a period of urgency and moral alarm during a time of global upheaval. I leave them here as part of the path that led to the Middle Way.
Letter to the Vatican: On Conscience, Formation, and the Spirit of Discernment
A public letter to Pope Leo XIV written in the spirit of witness and service—exploring conscience, annulment, moral formation, and the Church’s call to cultivate creative and critical thinking rooted in love.
On Fear, Enemies and the Illusion of Control
“Nervous systems pushed into constant fight-or-flight cannot produce stable leadership.”
A Nation in Fight-or-Flight
“The Middle Way is not neutrality. It is discipline—of speech, of power, and of the nervous system.”
A Middle Way Appeal on Justice and Stewardship
Justice is not measured by how forcefully it is wielded, but by how carefully it is restrained. When balance is modeled at the top, trust becomes possible below.
On Fissures, Family and the Limits of Forgiveness
“What we call fissures may, in fact, be the places where armor had to bend.
Forgiveness can heal fissures but is often misused when it comes with conditions.”
On Power, Discernment, and the Restoration of Balance
“Good people can fall under destructive spells—and redemption is possible when those spells are broken.”
Red, Blue and the Walls Between Us
The walls between red and blue were never meant to exist.
