One Soul, Many Flights

“You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?”—Rumi

Have you ever felt like you don’t quite fit into a single box—

not professionally, not spiritually, not creatively, not socially?

Like parts of you thrive in logic and rigor, while others crave meaning, art, movement, or mystery? Like you’re constantly being asked to choose—when your lived experience insists on both?

The Wings Within exists for people like that.

This is a space for those who are tired of fragmenting themselves to belong—who sense that their curiosity, contradictions, and evolution are not flaws to be corrected, but signals to be listened to.

The ones who are tired of crawling through society’s cage of expectations telling them who they should be and ready to discover who they truly are—using the Wings Within.

If this sounds like you, subscribe to get full access to the newsletter and publication archives.

Your Elemental Guide to the Journey

Instead of choosing a linear route of exploration, the Wings Within flies through different terrains of being human—how we think, believe, create, heal, build, and wander through the world.

To give that exploration some rhythm, themes are loosely organized around the four elements—air (science and technology), fire (spirituality and creativity), earth (wellness and travel) and water (reflections that flow freely across culture, art, politics, and society)

Here's how it unfolds:

For the first three months, I’m committing to a daily rhythm—one piece, seven days a week, following the elemental structure below:

• Friday Freedom | 🌊 Water

  For thoughts that don’t fit neatly into any specific category, flowing from art and culture in one week, to social and political reflections in another.

• Saturday Spirituality | 🔥 Fire

  For those questioning inherited beliefs, threading through faith, or sensing that meaning can be approached through many paths— with every path leading to the same destination.

• Sunday Science | ☁️ Air

  For anyone trying to think clearly in an age of noise—offering insight into how research, evidence, and critical thinking can be applied to navigate through the fog of information clouding our minds.

• Monday Magic | 🔥 Fire

  For the parts of you that create for no practical reason—poetry, music, mysticism, imagination—igniting the quiet courage it takes to let them shine in their own light.

• Tuesday Tech | ☁️ Air

  For people curious about AI and technology—the tools shaping our present and future, explained with clarity and care.

• Wednesday Wellness | 🌱 Earth

  For those on a personal healing journey—exploring wellness not as perfection, but as integration of mind, body, and spirit.

• Thursday Travel | 🌱 Earth

  For the travelers at heart—whether moving across borders or simply learning to see familiar places with a fresh pair of eyes.

You don’t need to resonate with everything here.

You only need to feel at home in some of it.

Skim the subjects, open what calls to you, let the rest live in the archives. This isn’t about inbox anxiety—it’s about abundance. Take what you need when you need it.

The first three months serve as an intensive exploration, a deep dive into what it means to live undivided.

However, this daily cadence is not meant to last forever—it’s a launchpad, not a landing spot.

After those initial months, the Wings Within will shift into a more organic rhythm—writing when insight demands it, not when the calendar does. But for now, I’m leaning into the discipline of showing up daily, and inviting you along for this concentrated journey.

Why Join this Flight?

By subscribing, you’re embracing the “And”.

You can be scientific and spiritual.

A technical geek and a creative artist.

Enthusiastic about both wellness and travel.

You can be any combination of these multiple identities we tend to put into separate boxes—a true misfit free to explore the mysteries of the mind, body, and soul using the Wings Within.

The flight is cleared for takeoff. I’d love for you to be on board.

A Note on Perspective

I don’t write from a place of having figured things out.

I write as someone moving through them—shaped by science, spirituality, creativity, technology, wellness, and travel—not as separate compartments, but as overlapping ways of making sense of the world.

If you’ve ever wondered:

• Am I inconsistent—or am I just evolving?

• Why do I feel torn between worlds I care about?

• Is something wrong with me for not fitting cleanly anywhere?

Then this space is an experiment in answering those questions without rushing to conclusions.

You won’t find prescriptions here.

You’ll find reflections.

Take what resonates.

Leave what doesn’t.

Return when something stirs.

About the Author

To most people, I introduce myself as an AI Engineer with a PhD in Biomedical Informatics, working in the corporate tech world.

But I’m also a certified Yoga and Jikiden Reiki practitioner, a poet, and an aspiring musician—someone shaped by travel and movement, learning from places beyond the familiar.

These are identities I haven’t always felt comfortable sharing with the world, and ones I’ve rarely made time for.

But after growing tired of fragmenting myself into quiet, stagnant pieces over many years, I decided to create The Wings Within—an attempt to let it all flutter and rise.

I’ve come to realize that we aren’t meant to be just one thing, but rather an integrated whole—mind, body, and soul intertwined, free to take flight as our most authentic selves across many paths and passions.

This publication is that integration in practice. It’s me, finally undivided.

🪽 From my wings to yours—may we never stop flying.