The first inhale.

The death of a doctor and the birth of a writer ...

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about birth and the ways in which our own birth’s inform our lives, our deaths and the entire cycle of existence. Is birth the beginning or the ending … or both?

And as I write this FIRST piece on substack, what am I birthing and into the world? 

My writing has been in a process of gestation recently and it’s been uncomfo…