PinnedShayaan HatimLink in Bio“Tell your story. Eat vegetables. Do good. Don’t die.”Jul 31, 2021Jul 31, 2021
Shayaan HatimMake Something TodayThere’s always this tense and agitated war between wanting to be present and wanting to escape. Sometimes life is good, and we forget that…Jan 22Jan 22
Shayaan Hatim7. Taos, New Mexico: Carpentry, Cement, and Camping in the Desert Cold (A Retrospective)Taos is magical, so they say.Sep 25, 20211Sep 25, 20211
Shayaan Hatim6. Corrales, New Mexico: Tobacco Friendships and The Sandias (A Retrospective)Riding the seven hours from Trinidad, Colorado to Albuquerque, New Mexico was one of three of the most gorgeous and amazing train rides…Sep 11, 2021Sep 11, 2021
Shayaan Hatim5. Trinidad, Colorado: A Homeless Night and a Morning Train (A Retrospective)My first experience of living on the streets was a weird one. I had money for a place to stay, but for a small place like Trinidad…Sep 2, 20211Sep 2, 20211
Shayaan Hatim4. Pueblo, Colorado: Hikes, Hitchhikes, and Living Off-Grid (A Retrospective)My first hitchhike was from Denver, through Colorado Springs, and ending in Pueblo. It wasn’t a hitchhike exactly, I just met someone at my…Aug 31, 2021Aug 31, 2021
Shayaan Hatim3. Denver, Colorado: City of Plants and Transplants (A Retrospective)I don’t remember exactly what motivated me to move on to somewhere so far from Maine. Part of it was learning that hitchhiking from…Aug 28, 2021Aug 28, 2021
Shayaan Hatim2. Boston, Massachusetts: Cheers and Quiet (A Retrospective)I was only in Boston a few days in the last week of July, but it was enough to see how bad the shut-down got to be in some places. I knew…Aug 26, 2021Aug 26, 2021
Shayaan Hatim1. Portland, Maine: The Beginning (A Retrospective Series)Maybe there’s no better place to write about Portland, Maine than in Portland, Oregon, after a year of traveling all over the country and…Aug 14, 2021Aug 14, 2021
Shayaan HatimAlive for LifeOf the 344 stories, essays, poems, journal entries, ideas, reviews, and articles I’ve written over the last three years, I’ve only…Sep 13, 2019Sep 13, 2019