What makes a good life?

This isn’t about going everywhere or doing it all. It’s not about checking boxes or chasing TikTok trends. It’s about uncovering what’s meaningful—those special places that are well-designed, deeply local, often unexpected, and sometimes a little hard to describe. It could cost fifty cents or five hundred dollars. It’s the kind of thing you’d want... See more

My philosophy has always been: If it’s not great, it’s not worth it.

Choice

There isn’t a right answer.

There just isn’t. The game show

where the bells ring and the points

go up and the confetti falls

because you got the answer

is a lie. The preacher who would assure you

of how to attain salvation

is making it all up. The doctor

who knows just how to fix

what ails you will be sure

of something else tomorrow.

Every choice will

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‘the provisional life’. A way of living that feels like we’re waiting in the wings for the real thing to start.

But when we allow expression (through voice, through body, through presence) we remind ourselves that emotions are not threats. They are signals.

"The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity." - R.A. Lafferty

We've created a culture that treats depth like inefficiency. One that wants love without awkwardness, wisdom without confusion, transformation without the growing pains that crack us open and rebuild us from the inside out. And in doing so, we've accidentally engineered away the most essentially human experiences: the productive confusion of not... See more