In February 2022, I decided to create a Substack page in order to establish a written and visual extension to the podcast, and in order to share non-monetized content more seamlessly.

What you see below is a small sample of excerpts from what you will find long-form on Substack.

When you sign up, in addition to getting access to all of my writing, you will also be able to comment and engage on each post, plus get notified via email when I post something new.

I would love to have you as a part of our growing community!

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Chronicles of the Collapse

In 2018, a teacher of mine told me about a book called The Great Bay: Chronicles of the Collapse by Dale Pendell. Pendell was a poet, ethnobotanist, and novelist, who died in early 2018, just months before I heard about his book. I
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Living Life and Not Making Content About It

From the looks of my podcast episodes and Substack posts over the past six months, it would be easy to assume that not much has been happening, and/or that I’ve become incredibly lazy. In reality, that couldn’t be farther from the truth. My
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Let me tell you a story…

I originally released this piece of writing as a podcast episode in December of 2021, before I’d started my Substack page. Many of you have requested the written version, so I decided to release it here. If you’d like to hear the audio
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Where Have All the Liberals Gone?

“The end cannot justify the means, for the simple and obvious reason that the means employed determine the nature of the ends produced.” – Aldous Huxley A year and a half ago I sent an email to a woman I admired who works
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Community is a Practice

On August 21st, 2017, I woke up in a tent in the middle of a field in Rigby, Idaho. I had paid some farm owners fifty bucks to camp on their empty land so that I could watch the total solar eclipse at
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Whatever you do, just give me a body.

In hindsight, maybe it was a mistake to put the music on. I wanted to feel present enough to tune into whatever the float tank god was asking me to tune into, but after twenty minutes, I was still asking myself if I
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