: About Me

Hi.

I am Alden Stevens.

I live full time in a motorhome, and most often pay my bills as a municipal records management consultant (I go where I am needed, and make order out of chaos in towns, villages, schools, police departments, and justice courts).

This is a vocation which allows me to live my neo-Gypsy lifestyle without interfering too much with my real life.

In my real life, I am a writer, musician, voiceover talent, and Argentine tango instructor.

My first book, "The Simple Words" (thesimplewords.com), is a poetic "periodic table of elements for metaphysics," and continues to be the source of many of my beliefs.

I am currently working on a manuscript exploring the two fundamentally different ways Human beings interrelate with the Universe (and with each other).

All is well in my world.

I hope it is in yours, too.

Alden

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: To trust or not

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Most of us have an intuitive grasp of the relationship between fear and intimacy. We think, "If only there was more intimacy in my life, then I would be less afraid." This is sort of like saying, "The beatings will stop just as soon as morale improves," but it does explain why so many of us hunger for intimacy in our relationships as a way to make our fears go away. Intimacy does not drive out fear. The presence of intimacy in a relationship is an indication that fear has been in some way disinvited or diminished. Can you imagine a moment more richly saturated with intimacy than when a chi...

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