
Essays, experiments, and small beginnings… a public notebook about attention, beginning before certainty, and the discipline of noticing. Me, starting.
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For my birthday this year I was gifted a Gardyn. That is not misspelled. It’s an indoor, high-tech, AI-assisted, black-thumb-proofed garden.
I am someone who longs to be the kind of person who grows food and then makes the harvest into din...
I learned a new word today. It’s a Swedish word: Lagom. The internet presented it to me. The algorithm knows that my house and my mind are cluttered, thanks to the last Substack I wrote and now I’m looking into this philosophy. It sounds gr...
my very cluttered office…don’t judge…help.
I’m putting together small, curated packages of things I love and snail-mailing them to whoever wants one. I promise it’s not random junk…it’s good stuff…stuff I...
Farmer’s Market find: teeny little artichokes. We went to the stand where we’ve been getting these gorgeous big meaty artichokes lately, and there was a near-empty tub with a few of these little guys. I asked the farmer what to do with the...
I'm trying to build a writing practice, which means showing up before I'm ready, writing before I know what I'm going to say, and publishing before I've talked myself out of it. Promptly Written is that: a prompt, a response, and an exhale....
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I write about things I notice and can’t stop thinking about. Putting them here makes me stay with them long enough to see where they go...and gives me a reason to actually write instead of thinking about writing. This is me, just starting.
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