Change Your Story, Change Your World

Change Your Story, Change Your World

The Paradox of Control

From struggle to surrender, they key to coherence and power...

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Gabriel Lovemore
Jul 25, 2025
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Where The Sands Holds Water

October 1984. I was 23, somewhere between Niamey and Timbuktu, just after innocence and before initiation.

The Sahara was behind me, but its emptiness still echoed in my soul. I’d been hitchhiking for 3 months across Morocco, Algeria and Niger, and now Mali, sleeping rough, chasing the ghost trails of my childhood heroes: René…

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