Ramble #35

We got owls! We got frogs! We got THE MOON. Yes, it’s another Ramble, coming to you live from the Meadows Preserve in Ojai, California. For those of you new to the practice: I record these walk-and-talks every so often as a way to keep track of where my head’s at. If you’d rather read … Continue reading Ramble #35

One Thing Several Ways

“We are living through a transformative and dangerous era.”

The Switch

If I don’t understand it, anything might switch it off again.

Five Rhymes

“Not every experience needs to be put in the basket of ‘turn this into a beautiful piece of writing for the people’, but everything goes in the basket of – perhaps there is more to this than meets the eye.”

Sit.

I would like to sit longer with joy.

Rhymes

I just know that when I read it I felt personally attacked in that good, awful way that means something true is surfacing.

Ramble #30

This Ramble is about stuff I lost track of in 2021, things I’m thinking about in the new year, trying to abandon perfectionism, what to share and what not to share, the topography of the Ojai Valley, and various other things.

Annual Workbooks

I was so driven to write everything down in this breathless rush, as if writing could save me, but over the last few years I’ve moved away from that practice.

Old Post-It

So much of this process is just trying to build a system that tells my brain I’m okay.

Ramble #28

I’m barely managing to do my own work, which means I have no time for the work around the work—the work about the work.