A series of reflections excavating the unexamined mind.

Shared as essays, spoken word, and community conversation.

Every myth we inherit (personal, cultural, or collective) shapes how we see ourselves and the world.

The Common Myth is my ongoing practice of pausing, questioning, and unearthing the hidden agreements that live beneath the surface of our daily lives. These reflections are both reminders to myself and invitations for you: to look deeper, to think for yourself, and to reclaim the freedom that already belongs to you.

Here, you’ll find essays, audio readings, and connected practices… threads of excavation that move from reflection into embodiment. This is where inquiry meets creation, where we dissolve illusion and rediscover the art of living with presence.

Welcome to The Common Myth

If you’ve found your way here, I imagine you, too, are curious.

Curious enough to look beneath the surface.

Curious enough to ask whether the myths you live by are truly your own… or simply inherited.

I don’t have final answers.

What I do have is a practice: excavating the unexamined mind, holding the questions, and creating from presence.

Thank you for crossing this threshold with me.

— Veronica

Myth comes from Greek mŷthos, meaning speech, tale, or story. It passed through Latin and French before entering English. Its meaning evolved from any kind of tale to specifically sacred or traditional stories, and later, to false or untrue beliefs.

At its deepest linguistic root, myth is tied to the Proto-Indo-European base muH- / mewd-, meaning to think, imagine, mutter, or speak. This connects myth to the very act of giving form to thought through sound.

A related echo appears in Sanskrit with māyā, meaning illusion, magic, or appearance. In yogic philosophy, māyā refers to the veiling power that obscures reality, keeping us entangled in the kleshas (the afflictions or obstacles of the mind).

Both mythos and māyā express the human impulse to create and live within stories… narratives that can reveal deep truths, but also conceal them beneath layers of imagination.

Soul Notes Veronica Soul Notes Veronica

Life is Your Art

Ever wonder if your voice, your path, your way of showing up is enough? It is. Your life is your art… unrepeatable, authentic, and fully yours.

Create in Your Own Way

I wrote this after a quiet moment of remembering.

Remembering that it’s not about being seen or approved of, but about being true. I’ve spent a lot of time comparing, questioning, and doubting if what I create matters if it’s not met with applause. But this truth keeps returning: your life is the art.

Your breath, your movement, your presence - they change the shape of the world.
Whether or not anyone notices.

This is for you if you’ve been wondering if your voice, your path, your way of showing up is enough.

It is.
Keep creating as you are.

Your Life as Art

The world is different with or without you in it.

That may sound obvious, but it carries a quiet truth: Your presence shifts the shape of things.
And your absence does too.

Still, your art, your life, is not meant to mirror your neighbor’s. It’s not here to match, to compare, or to be measured against someone else’s version of living.

Create in Your Own Way

Your art is not limited to canvas, music, or words. It is the way you breathe, the way you move, the way you choose to rise each morning.

It’s in how you carry your scars and your joy.

How you speak, how you listen, and how you create from whatever material this moment gives you.

This is the essence of authentic living.

Your unique path expressed through presence.

An Unrepeatable Expression

Whether or not anyone notices… whether or not the world understands… your art is yours. It’s unrepeatable.

No one else can live your life for you.
No one else can move through the world the way you do.

And that is the gift you carry. The originality of simply being yourself.

A Gentle Invitation

So create as you are.
Breathe as you are.
Move as you are.

Because the point was never to be the same. It was always to be fully, unmistakably you.

Take a moment today and ask yourself:

  • Where am I still trying to mirror others instead of creating in my own way?

Write down what comes up and notice how your body feels as you answer.

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