"We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community."
— Dorothy Day, The Long Loneliness
The loneliness Dorothy Day describes isn't simply the ache of being alone in a room. It is something more persistent—the sense of carrying a private world that no one else fully enters. Self-protection can quietly deepen it, even while trying to manage it. We guard ourselves from being seen and then wonder why we feel unseen.
Love, in this sense, isn't a feeling that arrives to dissolve the loneliness. It may be closer to a practice—showing up, being present, allowing others to matter without requiring them to perform. Community doesn't ask us to dissolve ourselves. It may simply invite us to stop carrying the distance alone.
Egos Anonymous is offered in an experimental spirit—an invitation to see whether there’s interest in a shared way of working with ego, self-will, and control. The language, structure, and practices are still forming and are meant to grow through lived experience.
This is a soft launch. The hope is to eventually gather a year of reflections into a book, but for now they’re simply being shared—one day at a time—to see what resonates.
If something feels useful, confusing, incomplete, or off, feedback is welcome and genuinely appreciated. This work is meant to be shaped together.
