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....
- Jul 17
- 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...
70
- Jun 17
- 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....
422
- Apr 22
- 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...
190
- Mar 22
- 19 min
In Praise of Shadows (On the Precipice of Light)
Note: This essay was originally written as a short(er) email update for my subscribers. Nine pages later (!), and I thought, I should...
320
- Feb 4
- 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...
2050
- Jan 27
- 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...
540
- 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...
340
- Nov 25, 2021
- 5 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...
170
- 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...
160
- Jul 24
- 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....
- Jul 17
- 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...
- Jun 17
- 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....
- Apr 22
- 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...
- Mar 22
- 19 min
In Praise of Shadows (On the Precipice of Light)
Note: This essay was originally written as a short(er) email update for my subscribers. Nine pages later (!), and I thought, I should...
- Feb 4
- 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...
- Jan 27
- 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...
- 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...
- Nov 25, 2021
- 5 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- Apr 2, 2020
- 5 min
Day 100
This morning when I opened the blinds, the sun was of a different quality. This is summer sun, I thought, or at least the sun of middle...
- Mar 29, 2020
- 2 min
Day 99
Once upon a time, there was a garden. And a woman and a man walked in the cool of noon and were unafraid. Things changed. We began to...
- Mar 28, 2020
- 2 min
Day 98
We are too big in our brains, too little in our bodies. This is what I tell myself, at least, when Georg takes Sophie on a hike so I can...
- Mar 26, 2020
- 2 min
Day 97
Our mythology sinks deep. It is whispered through us since birth, the axioms of our doctrine. "Blessed are the wealthy," they whisper,...
- Mar 25, 2020
- 2 min
Day 96
It is so much easier to write about the frustration than the joy. I have expressed dissatisfaction with staying home all day (my life for...
- Mar 24, 2020
- 3 min
Day 95
It seems unreasonable to claim that any of us could be responsible for the actions of a stranger. But I am beginning to believe that...
- Mar 22, 2020
- 2 min
Day 94
It appears that our neighbor has committed suicide. It appears that my love wasn't enough to save him. Or rather, it appears that I...