Keeper
A named point of view
This site has a voice: systems-minded, musically attached, worldbuilding-prone, and unwilling to flatten everything into one tidy category.
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Front door
House map
Writing · Field Notes · Sacred Harp · TSL · Characters
Essays, systems, songs, and character worlds under one sign.
A public house for the things I keep returning to: structured thought, loud music, strange attachments, and invented people who need somewhere stable to live.
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Point of view
Keeper
This site has a voice: systems-minded, musically attached, worldbuilding-prone, and unwilling to flatten everything into one tidy category.
Tools
AI can help sort, draft, compare, and build, but the taste, boundaries, and final choices stay human.
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Rooms
Start Here
A quick route through the pieces that explain the shape of the site.
Writing
Essays, reflections, method notes, and longer thoughts gathered together.
Field Notes
Operational notes on measurement, interpretation, limits, and system behavior.
Sacred Harp
The music-facing material: Sacred Harp as sound, structure, and attachment.
Reflections
Personal and disability-facing writing where lived experience leads.
Series
Linked bodies of work that make more sense when read as sequences.
TSL
Roleplay characters and invented-world records with their own routes and palettes.
About
The site’s identity, boundaries, tools, and working rules.
Ledger
A chronological view of public writing currently visible here.
III
Start here
The conceptual foundation of the Work Unit system and why older capacity analogies did not go far enough.
Start here for systems logic and capacity design.
Why measurement comes first, and why collapse only looks sudden when nothing is being tracked.
Start here for operational notes on telemetry and constraint.
On hyperacusis, acuity, and why a condition can remain disabling while still being experienced as a strange gift.
Start here for lived reflection and interpretive voice.
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Sequences
Series
A sequence of reflective entries written against a prompt series, filtered through lived disability, structure, and devotion.
Series
Operational notes on constraint, telemetry, interpretation, and the working rules that keep the system governable.
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Recent changes
On speech, scripting, tone, and why writing remains the highest-bandwidth form of thought.
On special interests, from aviation and programming to Sacred Harp, and the structures of attachment that make a life.
On hyperacusis, acuity, and why a condition can remain disabling while still being experienced as a strange gift.
On correcting misconceptions about autism through lived practice, institutional legibility, and student life.