A cartographer mapped the heart with perfect precision.
Then a visitor arrived — full of feelings that didn’t fit on her page.
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The Atlas of the Human Heart
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The Shepherd of Souls
Once upon a time there was a shepherd named Lior,
who lived happily in the mountains
with his wife and young son.Their life was simple and hard.
Yet they had each other,
and their sheep,
and the mountains and valleys were so beautiful —
beautiful beyond words.
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The Wayward Gift
A tale of mercy, betrayal, and the mysterious ways grace unfolds.
A young woman’s kindness is repaid with treachery… yet what she loses becomes a blessing in unseen hands.
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The Luminous Moon
This video is an experiment in piano four-hands. Normally, for piano four-hands, two players sit at one piano, with one playing the high part and the other the low.
Instead, here I video myself playing each part — one at a time — and then combine them.
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The Quirky Blacksmith
A GrailHeart story.
The village blacksmith was
a man of steady heat and hand.
With a few quirks no one quite understood.
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As Above, So Also Below — A Musical Ambigram
Music, like the cosmos, has its hidden symmetries.
Turn it over, and it tells you the same truth – yet not the same.
Right becomes left, above becomes below,
but the song still breathes.
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Branches Longing for Birds
(Poem & Music)
There is a kind of longing that does not chase.
It does not run or reach.
It simply stretches — quietly, openly
— toward the possibility of something unseen.Like branches.
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The Listening Light
I stepped into the old stone chapel,
its door half-swallowed by ivy,
its windows dusted in the hush of years.
A single beam of afternoon
cut through the dusk like a blessing.
Dust floated like memory,
and the stones exhaled
a silence older than prayer.
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Where Crossroads Hold Their Breath
From her earliest days, Nia could hear them:
the murmurs of other lives she might have lived.
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The Gödel Horizon and the Limits of Certainty
The 19th century was drunk on certainty.
Steam power, steel, calculus, colonialism – humanity, it was said, could conquer anything. Science would solve all mysteries. Mathematics would explain the universe. There was nothing, it seemed, we couldn’t measure, map, and master.
But the 20th century put an end to that illusion.