The Creative Mind & Mortality Podcast

Where does a body of work really begin? In this episode, I go back to two moments that stayed with me long before I had the language to understand them. A low-income apartment complex on Madison Avenue in Ogden, Utah. And years later, standing at the Sand Creek Massacre site in Colorado. At the time, they felt unrelated. Just experiences that didn’t quite resolve. But over time, a pattern started...

This episode turns toward a more difficult realization: the systems we rely on to create meaning are not as stable as they appear. Opening with Work Song by Hozier, this episode explores what happens when the structures that protect us from death awareness begin to strain. What initially feels like a love song reveals something more complex—an attempt to locate meaning not in permanence, but in re...