May these inner stories for navigating the outer world inspire you
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Welcome to a space dedicated to empathy and self-exploration as pathways to stronger inner stories. While sharing my own stories, I also invite you to visit the Useful Links section. Which features various pathways you might consider for strengthening your own inner stories in ways that feel comfortable and purposeful. And as I’m keen on connecting with my visitors, do contact me with your questions or comments.
Welcome to a space dedicated to empathy and self-exploration as pathways to stronger inner stories. While sharing my own stories, I also invite you to visit the Useful Links section. Which features various pathways you might consider for strengthening your own inner stories in ways that feel comfortable and purposeful. And as I’m keen on connecting with my visitors, do contact me with your questions or comments.
Welcome to a space dedicated to empathy and self- exploration as pathways to stronger inner stories. While sharing my own stories, I also invite you to visit the Useful Links section. Which features various pathways you might consider for strengthening your own inner stories in ways that feel comfortable and purposeful. And as I’m keen on connecting with my visitors, do contact me with your questions or comments.
Plays and Essays
Withdrawal Play
Through song and dance, drama and comedy, Paul Performs his true story about being wrongly prescribed anti-psychotics, bouncing him from being a threat to society to fantasied of flying with sparrows.
Recreating his links with Blacks from when he was a toddler and into his 30s, Paul then acts out scenes of his reuniting much later in life with the Black community—through marching to get jail time for the racist cop who assassinated 17-year-old Laquan McDonald.
If not for Rosa Parks, I wouldn’t have had such feelings for my fellow man.
Paul Meyer
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3–5 minutes
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December 22, 2025
Rosa Parks sits in the front of a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, in 1956 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled segregation illegal on the city’s bus system.
Eyelids half closed, a wiry man in his sixties angles toward me. Dropping the the side seat at my his, his landing seeming to slam shut his lids, he leans into my shoulder.
I realize Grampa had to walk a fine line in a Jim Crow Houston
Paul Meyer
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1-2 minutes
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December 12, 2025
Future essayist Paul Meyer with his grampa
Today he cut up with scissors the sleeves on Gammy’s dress and got into the habit of breaking Coca Cola bottles, writes my single workingmom in her diary.
