
longform, commentary, essays, random shower thoughts, interesting conversations
| Platform | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Weekly | |
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| Issues | 58 | Founded | 5 years ago | Last Issue | 17 days ago |
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Written in early 2020, just after lockdowns started. With new additions.
I spend a lot of time wondering whether it felt like this to live through the last truly worldwide crisis, and probably as much time telling myself that of course...
9/16/22
Today I took a walking tour that was about the Troubles, or more specifically the violence. I probably should have expected this, but it reminded me of home. There are only so many ways to experience violence or police brutality, I...
It was such a beautiful dream. For nearly a quarter of a millennium we stood and shouted defiance at the very skies; we filled the air with the songs of war and love and faith and nature and our adolescent refusal to bend. We were, after al...
I wrote this but never published it in June 2019. It is hard to argue now, against the backdrop of 2026. We now live in a world where the President of the United States thinks he can unilaterally change the order of anything, from the names...
July 26 2025
It’s when the world goes truly quiet that you can hear it. There’s too much light during to day to listen to anything properly. (I am beginning to realize I’m going to have to find a shorthand for this new way of living becaus...
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