Alex Dobrenko

It is a question of when—not if—large and growing areas of countries become uninhabitable owing to prolonged freshwater shortages, extreme heat, widespread flooding, and frequent, costly storms. Bangladesh may well be the first country with a substantial population to face this problem on a large scale. The amount of land able to support human

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Recently, one of my private meditation students asked me, “What do you feel like when you meditate?” Right away I said, “Ordinary. Beautifully ordinary.”

There was a specific moment with myself, John Michael Boling, Damon Zucconi, and Dena Yago, where we had this discussion about whether we would use Are.na if we weren’t being paid to work on it. At that point we agreed that we wouldn’t. In that moment we asked, "What would it have to look like for us to actually be into it?"

Freaking people out is sort of a side hustle of mine lately. I guess that’s what happens when a confident recluse moves to a smallish town and, after roughly a year of panicking about the move, starts to inflict her bad personality on the populace.

(To experience the rest of this essay in full effect, I recommend playing this in the background.)