About Light

A Memoir Into Stillness

This isn’t just a book.
It’s a process. A practice.
A remembering. A letting go.
A listening to what remains.

A space for exploring what words can’t quite hold,
and what happens when we try anyway.

Each chapter is a step.
Each pause, a practice.
Each sentence, a pointer. Not to answers, but to attention.

I’m Glenn.

Writer. Father. Former strategist. Perpetual seeker and questioner.

After 25 years of building stories for organizations, I stepped out of that world and into silence. No title. No agenda. Just a seat on a cushion.

I scheduled five days of stillness at a Vipassanā retreat out of curiosity for what the experience might reveal.

It started with the open question: What remains when there’s nothing to do but listen?

This memoir began as a way to remember what transpired while I was there.
It became a way to live again. And now, it continues as a shared exploration.

What You’ll Find Here

• A serialized unfolding of Light: A 5-Day Memoir Into Stillness

• Nine chapters total: Preface, Prologue, Days 0–5, and an Epilogue

• Nearly 40 sections, released weekly with occasional background

• Open invitations for comments, questions, and collaborative reflection

This space is not for instruction, but for collaboration.
Not a lecture, but a shared witnessing.
A practice of writing, reflecting, and revising together.

Why This Matters

I believe stillness isn’t something we find once and hold onto.
It’s something we return to. Over and over. Each time, a little differently.

This book is not about Buddhism, but it is shaped by a Buddhist retreat.
It’s not a how-to guide, but a how-it-felt.
Not doctrine, but discovery.

I don’t claim wisdom. Only presence.
And a willingness to look, to feel, to try and put into written words what I’ve found ineffable to say out loud.

And perhaps, in these glimpses, you’ll see a reflection of your own stillness,
your own transition, your own attention, turning inward toward itself.

Rhythm

• Weekly: Sections of each chapter released Monday and Thursday

• Periodic reflections in Notes, sharing where the process is leading

• Invitations to offer feedback and help shape the final manuscript

Eventually, these drafts will be revised, gathering your insights, and published as a complete book: print, digital, and audio.

If something here stirs something in you,
if it reminds you of something half-remembered,
if it simply gives you pause, I'd love to hear what opened.

This isn’t a broadcast.
It’s an unfolding.
A shared noticing.

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Come sit with me. Let’s listen together.