September 2025

sometimes the most important thing we can do is let ourselves stay blurry. to be unbranded, unpositioned, undone for a while. because real self-knowledge is a slow, unmarketable process. and the lost feeling might just be the first sign that you’ve finally stopped performing someone else’s idea of a good life.

Intimacy in the way I’m inquisitive about you.

Twyla Tharp once wrote that many people never move past the “box stage'“ of creativity. their research and scraps pile up but never cohere into anything. I think about this all the time. How easy it is to live inside the comfort of collecting. How much harder and braver it is to make something.

Ritual prevents the ordinary from dissolving into invisibility. If you light a candle at dinner, the meal becomes an event. If you walk at the same time each day, it becomes more than exercise. Anthropologists will tell you that rituals function as technologies of attention: certain ordinary acts aren’t trivial, they’re the architecture of meaning.

“The desire to think about other forms of archive, and other ways of holding knowledge, has always been embedded in my work, whether that’s in a lived space, whether it’s in land. Land is also an archive. Dust. Recipes. Songs and stories.”

Room for the

quiet, odd &

poetic web

What we see as a mushroom is only the fruiting body, a brief visible expression of a much larger underground network called the mycelium. This mycelium forms a symbiotic relationship with trees, wrapping around their roots and trading nutrients: the fungus delivers water and minerals from the soil, while the tree shares sugars from photosynthesis.... See more

I take care of the beautiful things — whether it’s a sound, a sentence, a feeling — so they can keep growing, so they don’t disappear unnoticed. And when you ask me what makes me admire someone, that’s it. That ability to pay attention. That’s the trait I notice most in others. It’s quiet, but powerful.

Someone who makes me think differently, even... See more