I am wrong. Please correct me.

I used to hate being wrong. Now I relish it.

When I find out I’m wrong, I get to be a little closer to right. And I love understanding more than I hate being wrong.

The work I publish here is carefully researched. I read primary sources. I check etymologies. I cross-reference traditions. I sit with material long enough to know whether I trust it. But I still make plenty of mistakes. I cite sources that turn out to be shaky. I miss context. I overstate. I collapse distinctions that shouldn’t collapse. I bring my own blind spots to questions that deserve cleaner sight.

Publishing is part of how I find those mistakes. If I kept the work in a drawer it would stay subtly wrong forever. And so would my understanding. Out here, in dialogue with readers, it has a chance to get less wrong.

So please — challenge me. Tell me where the citation doesn’t hold. Tell me where the framing flattens something it shouldn’t. Tell me where you have direct knowledge — lived, ancestral, ecological, scholarly — that contradicts what I’ve written. I want that. I will read carefully. I will update where the evidence calls for it, and I will say so when I do.

There is one more kind of correction I want to name explicitly, because it doesn’t always feel welcome in writing like this: the felt correction.

If something I write feels wrong to you and you can’t yet say why — if it lands sideways, if your gut won’t accept it, if it sets off a quieter alarm than you can articulate — please tell me anyway. The body knows things the citation index hasn’t caught up to. Embodied knowing, ancestral knowing, the slow accumulated sense of this is not how this actually works — these are sources, not noise. Some of the corrections I’ve most needed in this work arrived as a feeling first and an argument second.

You can reach me through the comments on any post, through the contact form, or through the social media links at the bottom of the page. Whatever’s easiest.

So: I am wrong, somewhere in here. Probably in several places. Please help me find where.