owl

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.

"When everything is readily available and consumable, contemplative attention is impossible." (Byung-Chal Han, Vita Contemplativa)

a personal parenthesis

at 23 i left home, not just the house i lived in but the country i lived in, to pursue an abstract "better life".

i wasn't sure what it would look like, but a new job gave me a ticket out and i took it with the full confidence that in about 5 years i would know what was actually next in my life. a stepping stone into a five

Flaubert famously said, “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”

Now the 1990s seem like a period when the world was starting to go crazy, but not so crazy that it was unmanageable or irreparable. It was the end of the twentieth century, but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us. People played by the old rules, despite a growing recognition that those rules were