Widen the Net of the Flesh
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- Aug 7
- 7 min
On bodies, souls, and indigenous ontologies
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- Jun 28
- 14 min
Great are the Multitudes
Note: This is an essay originally sent to subscribers on my mailing list, where I send essays every 1-2 months. If you would like to...
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- Jan 14
- 12 min
Nowhere But Here
There is no ideal life. There is only the life that you have chosen freely. Sometimes, a line arrives fully formed in my life, like a...
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- Oct 14, 2022
- 7 min
What is a god?
Note: This post consists of a few excerpts from Ousia, a book that I am currently writing. These sections are not finished, but I felt...
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- Oct 3, 2022
- 3 min
How Many Ways to Pray (whether or not you believe in God)
Let us begin with a clarification: the existence of God is beside the point. The fact that we can question God's existence as external...
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- Sep 5, 2022
- 2 min
Art is useless...unless it makes you an artist
I have long believed that my work is useless. Useless unless its beauty crawls beneath your own sight, hatching new seeds of seeing....
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- Sep 4, 2022
- 8 min
The Weight of Material Things
Sun clutters the floor. Still, no words. My objects have not yet bent their bodies to the shape of this new space. Opened boxes, my...
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- Jul 23, 2022
- 17 min
Bodies & Lost Localities
The hand of summer has felled interior wanderings. The whoosh of cars and the buzz of lawnmowers sound thickly through a viscous heat....
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- Jul 17, 2022
- 3 min
The Ghost of the Female Body
(This is an excerpt from my memoir, The Sea Once Swallowed Me). The earth wakes stark with white light, the air tastes of iron. As I...
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- Jun 17, 2022
- 10 min
Time is a Hiding Place
Evening, the sun still un-setted. Light shatters through the outside trees, breaking through windows and landing on my typing hands....
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- Apr 22, 2022
- 1 min
A Forgotten Belonging
There is a profound alienation at the heart of the modern self: we move through seas of strangers, we feel trapped between the cramped...
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- Mar 22, 2022
- 18 min
In Praise of Shadows (On the Precipice of Light)
Note: This essay was originally written for my email subscribers. If you struggle (as I do) with reading very long essays on the...
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- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
The Weight of Selfhood
"Spacetime is the individuation of entities." —Schopenhauer Blinking into self-consciousness, you are birthed into a terrible weight. You...
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- Jan 27, 2022
- 4 min
Language, Being, and the Sea Beneath
A truth is found in fragments, scattered throughout all disciplines. Each thinker employs a distinct language, but the essence is the...
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- Dec 24, 2021
- 1 min
Excerpts from OUSIA: Performance Poems for New Worlding
Words mean nothing if they can’t be lifted off the page. Books must be deconstructed and disseminated into the material world. In a world...
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- Nov 25, 2021
- 4 min
Bake a Loaf of Bread, Craft a New Mythology
Note: This is an excerpt from my next book, Ousia: Performance Poems for New World-ing. There are symbols in the original book that...
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- Nov 15, 2021
- 5 min
Love Widens The Horizon of Possibility
Dear Readers, What’s distracting her? I’m not sure; my eyes are fixed on her child. He is maybe a year old, wearing only a diaper—with no...
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- Oct 25, 2021
- 6 min
The Iconic Nature of Love
Dear Readers, From cold air and brightly-colored trees to a perfect 70 something degrees and stunning sunsets: we are back in Arizona to...
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- Oct 24, 2021
- 4 min
Love De-objectifies
(This and the next three posts are from a three-part email series about the workings of love. I rarely post emails to my website, but if...
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- Dec 26, 2020
- 7 min
Netflix's "Cuties" Is The Film We Deserve
"My aesthetic perspective is to hold a mirror in front of the world so that we as adults are able to see what we have created." -Maïmouna...
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- Mar 6, 2020
- 2 min
Day 83
The light came through the glass door this evening while I drank peppermint tea. Sophie tried begging for cartoons, but I insisted on...