I woke up a few days back to this unvarnished Amazon review for my book "When Attention Settles", and I am still trying to find a quiet way to process it (screenshot attached below): “I was sitting on my couch reading about Uncle John, and I had such a profound, aggressive breakthrough about how much mental energy I waste trying to manage and manipulate every single conversation that I literally stood up, walked out to my balcony, and threw my smartphone into the parking lot.

For a long time, my relationship with words was a very private one. When I first began writing the observations that would eventually become When Attention Settles, they were simply small notes to myself. I was genuinely hesitant to share these thoughts publicly. To now see the book reach #44 in Spiritual Meditations in the US Kindle Store feels deeply humbling. My only hope was that it might offer a quiet space for a few fellow travelers. Knowing that it is reaching people,