Miko – Miko’s Musings

New poem on Substack

I decided to start a Substack dedicated (mostly) to sharing my poems. The platform is easier to manage and suits my needs better overall, so I’ll be posting there from now on. You can check out the poem here:

a poem: multitudes

I haven’t written a poem for a while. I haven’t published a poem here yet.

I went to a friend’s poetry exhibition yesterday. It inspired me to write. Here is what came of it.

Victor Frankl and the value of Human Design

Over the past two weeks, I’ve returned to studying Human Design, and particularly learning about circuitry and the 36 channels. Given that my initial aim was to use these insights as inspiration for songwriting, I looked at the designs of some of the people close to me to see if I can map the informationContinue reading “Victor Frankl and the value of Human Design”

Responding & responsibility

Are you aware of how you respond to whatever happens to you? Because if you aren’t, you can’t really access choice – you can only be an effect rather than a cause. A victim. A leaf blown around by the wind. Here’s a quote from Mark Manson which inspired this little post: “You have responsibilityContinue reading “Responding & responsibility”

Release yourself

One of the ideas I had in mind when I first started this blog was to share and write about songs that touch me or move me (hence ‘music’ in the domain name.) Gravity by A Perfect Circle is one of them. In it, frontman Maynard James Keenan (also known from Tool) sings: “calm theseContinue reading “Release yourself”

It’s full moon today…

…which makes it a good time to start or change something! Although, perhaps you never really need an excuse for that. Still, it’s lovely to make sense of coincidences, isn’t it? My name is Miko. I’m a rather useless 25 year-old at this point, and I’ve just seen a YouTube video that shed light onContinue reading “It’s full moon today…”