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Bodies & Lost Localities
  • 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....
70
The Ghost of the Female Body
  • 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
Time is a Hiding Place
  • 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
A Forgotten Belonging
  • 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
In Praise of Shadows (On the Precipice of Light)
  • 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
The Weight of Selfhood
  • 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
Language, Being, and the Sea Beneath
  • 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
Excerpts from OUSIA: Performance Poems for New Worlding
  • 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
Bake a Loaf of Bread, Craft a New Mythology
  • 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
Love Widens The Horizon of Possibility
  • 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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Bodies & Lost Localities
  • 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....
The Ghost of the Female Body
  • 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...
Time is a Hiding Place
  • 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....
A Forgotten Belonging
  • 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...
In Praise of Shadows (On the Precipice of Light)
  • 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...
The Weight of Selfhood
  • 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...
Language, Being, and the Sea Beneath
  • 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...
Excerpts from OUSIA: Performance Poems for New Worlding
  • 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...
Bake a Loaf of Bread, Craft a New Mythology
  • 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...
Love Widens The Horizon of Possibility
  • 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...
The Iconic Nature of Love
  • 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...
Love De-objectifies
  • 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...
Netflix's "Cuties" Is The Film We Deserve
  • 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...
Day 100
  • 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...
Day 99
  • 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...
Day 98
  • 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...
Day 97
  • 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,...
Day 96
  • 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...
Day 95
  • 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...
Day 94
  • 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...
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