the sweetness of doing nothing
I’m sitting at a beachside café on Bingin Beach in Uluwatu, Bali, and I’m filled with a giddiness reminiscent of first-date jitters. I...
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compounded holidays
There’s this stretch of time between Thanksgiving and New Year’s—that’s mimicked on a microcosmic level between Christmas and New...
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Jul 9, 20232 min read
tube thoughts
A collage of thoughts from tube rides in London over five weeks. See it. Say it. Sort it. That simple? double shot Tanqueray and Fever...
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Jun 11, 20232 min read
on being alone
I used to be really bad at being alone. In fact, I feared it. In high school, I would leave my house around 6:30 AM and stay out as late...
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May 9, 20233 min read
soonness (continued)
We have reached that time of year when soonness is in full bloom. The cherry blossoms are on their way, pale pink buds taunting passersby...
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Apr 21, 20232 min read
am i pretty?
“A theory: ‘Pretty’ has gone out of favor because we are greedy, and want the merely pretty to be fully beautiful, and so we go around...
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Apr 6, 20234 min read
first fifteen
9:24 AM | sunday “The whiteness of these waters is simple. They are elemental transparency. Like roundness, or silence, their quality is...
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Mar 23, 20231 min read
on soonness
We have reached that time of year when soonness is in full bloom. The cherry blossoms are on their way, pale pink buds taunting passersby...
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Mar 15, 20231 min read
nat
Pieces that should do the Should’s but pieces that so badly want the Want’s. Pieces that flirt with the beaten path and pieces that are...
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Mar 2, 20233 min read
big hands
So there’s this girl with big hands. Some people say “massive.” Certainly above average for girls her age. Puberty hit her early—in 5th...
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Feb 22, 20232 min read
a shot of ex-presso
A couple, who is no longer a couple—but at one moment of time, was certainly a couple—grab coffee. The girl starts. She is doing well....
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Jul 17, 20225 min read
so, what are you doing this summer?
A seamless follow-up question to “How are you?” in each summer-small-talk conversation. My response? Well, it seems to vary according to...
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Apr 13, 20223 min read
things I like
I parked outside my childhood home the other Tuesday and started listing things I like. Here's what I wrote down: I like how every day is...
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Jan 19, 20223 min read
music, in a sentence
(This should take 3-ish min to read... just about as long as your favorite song... why not pause here and throw it on?) So my dog Lola is...
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Jan 4, 20226 min read
coca-cola
A testimony by Kathy Park, Buddhist teacher at Kwan Um School of Zen. Kathy currently lives in Seoul, Korea, so we spoke virtually on...
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Oct 11, 20213 min read
did u guys hu?
“It feels bad to be used, but the alternative is no one wants to use you, and that’s worse.” (Quote from NPR’s “Hookup Culture” Podcast...
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Sep 13, 20212 min read
Brown, babe, you so smart and good to me
So enlighten me as to why I am allowed to go to a 5,000-person club fair where I'm amongst a Brown sea of almost entirely strangers, but...
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Aug 18, 20211 min read
the name game
But is there a more pointless exchange and waste of the English language than: "Oh, you grew up in [insert remote suburban town]? You...
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Jan 4, 20211 min read
find the good.
DMac is the guy you want comforting you when you're grieving over DMac's death. Funny how that works. A year ago today, Rivers lost it's...
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