Playground at the Edge

This is a story about what becomes possible when the ordinary guards come down. It begins with an accidental edible and a coyote on a trail. A lucid dream that bleeds into waking life. And a question the rational mind can't answer: what does the body know that thinking can't reach? Read the full piece at: https://playgroundattheedge.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discu...

This episode is about what we lose when we learn to play nice — and what it costs to go back for it. It begins on a public stage, with a six-year-old dancer who has no idea she's supposed to be nervous. It ends on a jiu-jitsu mat, soaked in other people's sweat, giggling inside a choke. In between: a trailhead sign in Ithaca, a vow, eighteen months of guaranteed defeat, and the slow arrival of som...

This episode is an origin story. It begins in 1981, on a dark purple velvet couch, with a three-year-old who suddenly becomes aware of a world between worlds. It ends in the forest, at the river, and in the quality of presence two people can create together when a meeting remakes them. In between: a homeless shelter in Boston, a classroom in Denver, birth work, yoga, acrobatics, somatic sexology,...

What would it mean to stop managing your life from a distance — and start actually living it? This episode introduces the practice at the heart of the Playground at the Edge: communion. Not the religious kind — but the kind that happens when something outside you calls something inside you forward. When a conversation becomes a meeting. When light through trees stops you cold. When laughter ignite...