What Is Open Doors?

The more I consume, the more my understanding of myself—and the world—changes shape. Each book, essay, work of art, or ordinary moment doesn’t just add information. It forms connections. Ideas begin to echo, argue, harmonize, and quietly rearrange the furniture in my mind. The trouble is that a brain, at least mine, can’t hold that whole web in view for very long.

Open Doors is my attempt to outsource the networking. Across Explorations, Reflections, Fiction & Poetry, and What I’m Hearing, I try to name what I’m noticing while I’m still close to it—then file it in a way that lets it find its neighbors later. What I’m Hearing (and its archives) is the running log: the things I’m reading, watching, and listening to now, alongside the things that stuck around. Over time, some of those entries become threads, and those threads lead to posts.

By building a place for my ideas to live outside my head, I’m aiming for a kind of cognitive transparency—and a clearer way to speak about what I actually think and feel as it evolves.