Unselfing/Reselfing

…a whole realm of people who could look at every passing thought and doodle and hard-won victory and low moment and interview and blog post and reflect back someone cohesive and true.

It’s Fall and I’m Different

I’m not sure what type of Seasonal Human I am.

The Owl Neck Problem

When is it going to be enough?

Coherence

Offline we exist by default; online we have to post our way into selfhood.

Authenticity: Interintellect Salon Notes

A good thing: I’ve started wandering into more and stranger corners of the internet in the past year. Weird legacy sites documenting English heirloom potatoes. Minimalist archives of Japanese woodworking techniques. A blog in the form of a text-based game. So it doesn’t surprise me that much (except it kind of does) to have stumbled … Continue reading Authenticity: Interintellect Salon Notes

Strange, Familiar Seas

Lessons from a man who swims in the sea every night—and then tweets about it.

The Trap

Tap dancing into the jaws of the iron maiden and right back out again.

In the Beginning

“I miss possibility,” she says. It’s March 29th and we’re walking home through falling blossoms, couples edging off the sidewalk to avoid coming within contagion distance as we pass. We point at the rippling edges of tulips, paint jobs on houses we’ve never seen before. I look for sequences of color in the world—a car … Continue reading In the Beginning