Privacy, security, communication, and trust...

I may write about my life in detail into my books, but I also believe in the virtue of privacy. For all that I surrender into the public sphere, there is easily as much unspoken about my life within the sphere of privacy.

Privacy is sacrosanct. But balancing it with communicating what needs to be known is an art form. Privacy and communication form a competing set of ideals.

Security provides privacy. Trust is the currency upon which security rests. And communication requires varying levels of trust based on what is to be known and not known.

Privacy does not just involve information. It can also involve the security and unseeable space of someone's home. Even if there are no secrets within that space, the mundane still has a value in private expression.

Being secret is not the same as being private. Secrets hold power. Privacy brings peace of mind. You cannot adequately have secrets without their privacy, but privacy need not involve secrets.

Everyone deserves a sanctuary space to call their own—one free from influence or prying eyes. It brings balance to an otherwise heavily surveilled life. It provides a place to heal from the onslaught of human awareness.