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I have always been driven to create and inspire through language. Here, you will find a collection of stories and poems that explore the raw edges of human connection, culture, and resilience.
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“Lex Santí has a poet’s heart, his work is a wonder.”
— Cara Hoffman, author of Running, Be Safe I Love You, and So Much Pretty
(Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Salon, and The Paris Review.)*
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TV Shows that Inspired the Song of the Midnight Rider
Lex E Santí, A Key Therapy LCSW, PLLC There are shows that pass through your life like a rest stop on the highway — you pull in, get what you need, pull out, and forget the exit number by the next mile marker. And then there are shows that stay with you — not because they're prestige television or because someone told you they were important, but because they did something to you. They changed the way you see. The way you drive, metaphorically speaking. The way you sit with


The Night Reality Slipped
True confessions from a young child facing their worst fear Lex E. Santí, A Key Therapy LCSW, PLLC It was 1987, and I woke up in the dark to something crawling over me. Dazed I rubbed my eyes and pulled back the sleeping bag. I heard screeching. I don't remember having awoken to screeching like this in the last 40 years. This type of screeching landed in my chest before it reached my ears. I was a teenager and something was moving in the living room of Jesse Winter's house th


Now on Substack... and TikTok
A Key to Something -- On starting a newsletter, staying with the blog, and what I'm thinking about these days A Key Therapy PLLC, LCSW I've been writing here for years — poems, essays, dispatches from the practice, the occasional film recommendation — and that continues. This is still home base. But I've been circling the idea of a newsletter for a while now, and I finally did it. It's called A Key to Something . The name is a play on aquí — the Spanish word for here, which
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