Sep 11, 2020It’s Time to ForgetThe expectation in my particular corner of the world was normalcy — the insidious kind typical of white, christian suburbs — but I was not a normal kid. I grew to feel very out of place among my peers and family whose main concern seemed to be sports and the…America6 min readAmerica6 min read
Jul 24, 2020On value and living systems.On value and living systems. In one bowl, food for us, for later. In another, food for bacteria who will in return gift us vinegar. In the last, the bowl that may just look like trash, that’s a bowl of eggs and soil. From a living system we have much…Life3 min readLife3 min read
Apr 6, 2020Our Silent SpringSociety grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in. ― Anonymous Greek Proverb Unprecedented, strange, surreal, unsettling, terrifying; a small selection of adjectives that have been used in the past weeks to describe our collective global human experience in the face of…Covid 198 min readCovid 198 min read
Jan 7, 2020KetosisKetosis; a metabolic state characterized by elevated levels of ketone bodies in the blood, a normal response to low glucose-availability brought on by, in my case, fasting. I’m approaching the eighteenth hour of a planned 48-hour fast and I’m reading Jonathan Gold, while considering a pilgrimage to L.A. to trace…Food5 min readFood5 min read
Feb 12, 2019Winter Lament of a Modern ManLately I’ve been dreaming about chopping wood, in the snow. My mind constructs a perfectly snowy scene, on a wooded plot somewhere. There I am, bundled in coat and hat, with my axe; chopping, splitting. With each fall, the axe head splits another log into manageable fuel for the fire…Snow3 min readSnow3 min read
Nov 2, 2018Hope on this Day of the DeadThe act of writing is a lonely one, an old cliché, but a truth nonetheless. I’m sitting at my desk right now, fingers on the keyboard, just me and my thoughts playing solitaire and scrabble. I’m not the first writer to observe this necessity. Writing is done apart from the…Gardening7 min readGardening7 min read
Oct 12, 2018Ferment away the painI remember when it seemed fun and necessary to create a personality online. Establish a brand, be an influencer. Sell your digital self and reap the rewards IRL. But now it feels like we’re so far away from that world. Now it feels like we pull out our phones and…Food3 min readFood3 min read
Oct 11, 2018Universal Correspondence to the Outer Rim; a Cry for HelpTransmission 1; 23:19:00 UTC 20 September, 2018 To the great unknown, I believe there has been a terrible mistake. Thirty two years ago I opened my eyes for the first time on this planet, what its inhabitants call “Earth”. I cried out, as human babies do when they are born…Letters11 min readLetters11 min read
Aug 9, 2018HomeMental health days turn into weeks, turn into months. Suddenly years have gone by. And what do I have to show for them? It gets harder to live in this world each year. Each year I feel more distant, alone, like I’m trying to get home. But I don’t know…Poetry1 min readPoetry1 min read
Jun 25, 2018I’m Writing a BookI originally created this Medium profile as a canvas for a new chapter in my life beginning about 18 months ago; a wall onto which I could throw things to see what stuck. Well, I’ve thrown quite a bit at it thus far—58 different times, in fact. Not a bad…Writing4 min readWriting4 min read
