PinnedMichael PainterMASKSPity on these centuries and their happy or battered survivors, what we did not do was the fault of no one, steel was missing: we exhausted…Sep 29, 2023Sep 29, 2023
Michael PainterGot Pain?Deliberately gorging on unhappiness, yours or anyone else’s, is uncomfortable. It can be really disorienting.Aug 12, 2020Aug 12, 2020
Michael PainterAre You the River?For many, the connection between nature and human health can be intuitive or superficial, or sometimes both. We generally know, for…Apr 23, 2019Apr 23, 2019
Michael PainterStep Into Christmas[Reprise author’s note from December 2011 Christmas letter]Dec 25, 2017Dec 25, 2017
Michael PainterThe SpecterIt wasn’t until much later that anyone realized I was there or that I was in reality a ferociously determined man. That came much later. So…Dec 19, 2017Dec 19, 2017
Michael PainterAging Gracefully[Trigger warning: Multiple references to age, aging, elderly and old people. Strong “get off my lawn” language.]Dec 18, 2017Dec 18, 2017
Michael PainterAssimilationIt all started months ago pretty innocently. I surfed over to a website sponsored by a big mysterious company — you know, Snowstorm — the…Dec 18, 2017Dec 18, 2017