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Here you'll find reflections on the tensions we carry, the quiet truths we sense but can't quite name, and the lurking questions that follow us home.

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No Ordinary Times

Dean Bowman
By Dean Bowman
August 28, 2025

What do you do when half the country wants you dead?

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Emotional Noise

Dean Bowman
By Dean Bowman
August 01, 2025

Three weeks of creative paralysis led me to diagnose what's really wrong with my writer's block and our thinking.

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The Illusion of Independence

Dean Bowman
By Dean Bowman
July 18, 2025

Substack’s recent funding announcement frames itself as a victory for creative independence and cultural renewal. But is it?

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The Archaeology of Extinction

Dean Bowman
By Dean Bowman
July 03, 2025

The cost of insight into a system designed for willful ignorance.

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The Right to Not Respond

Dean Bowman
By Dean Bowman
May 19, 2025

Silence is not absence—it is what you offer when holding space feels more honest than filling it.

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The Sovereign Territory of Creation

Dean Bowman
By Dean Bowman
May 11, 2025

How and why I work is my own country, with its own topography.

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