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Dear F

And others who pre-ordered End of the Rainbow. Thank you so much. I have this doc all ready to upload, as soon as it passes all the checks for spelling […]

#91

Today in S P A C E, I’m sharing the ‘origin story’ about our zine. Bunches of stuff to talk about with some of you who are in my closest […]

Edits

Final stretch for me, this weekend, as I put the finishing edits onto this. Thanks to those who pre-ordered ! I really appreciate that. End of the Rainbow will arrive to your […]

#86

I wrote about this week’s coming-up issue of S P A C E over at DK, and thought hard about what the idea of it is, why I wanted to […]

A lovely sunny day / Một ngày nắng đẹp

I will try. To write the things. Straight up, without the abstraction that I usually put into these notes. Because it’s simplifying it: just telling a story, as it is, […]

‘Figure it out’

No one can tell you how to design your life. You have to figure it out, yourself. Instead of talking about what I did and how I got to where […]

Sharing as I go

The whole beauty of having a blog with passcodes is that you can easily share and also edit the words so you don’t have an annoying array of versions of […]

Link | ‘…the privilege of forgetting’… Article about erasure, by Nabil Echchaibi

Statues of colonialists coming down—or not, because some oppose ‘editing history’—is a big topic right now on the web. I found this article particularly illuminating, and well-written. Here’s a bit […]

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My first book, The Elopement, was about running off to Ireland to get married. Kind of. I didn’t mean to run off, and I didn’t mean to get married. Lots […]

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A work in progress

I remember on the road last year with Boss, in Vietnam, that we got a copy somehow of a short book by Hemingway called A Moveable Feast. Aside from the […]

Protected: Reconnexion

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20 Years

It’s going to be 20 years, next year, since the events of my first book, The Elopement. Which, surprising everyone (especially me), got some actual press and accolades the very […]

A new chapter. (Again).

This is fun. I have just gotten the green light on a thing, and I’m going to move forward with it. In the morning. Today I’m just gathering things, getting […]

‘Then what you are undergoes a transformation’

This is an update to an earlier note to myself, about one of the things I’d found and read that had moved me, quite, in 2017. The book was a […]

Of two philosophies

I got into a long-winded conversation yesterday afternoon that turned into a two-minute, tight summary this morning about the topic of ‘letting it flow,’ versus designing structures for things so […]

1981

I’m writing a new story and this popped into it. This song! This film. Who remembers? Gosh… 1981. मेरे नसीब में तू है क्या तेरे नसीब में मैं हूँ […]

#77

Wrote about this zine, over at DK. Here’s a link. Issue #77

#75

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Serendipities

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7AM USEST today | ‘Strange Geometries’

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ALE | Welcome to the new journey

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#68

Yesterday in S P C, I re-published one of my favorite issues. It’s the one that inspired lots and lots of new thinking, because it was a conversation that started […]

S P C | The 10 best articles I’ve read since outbreak’s escalation, care to add or comment?..

[Editors note] OK. So this is a list-article I wrote, as I’ve been reading and discovering and learning and curating. Today, I am posting it in one of the emails […]

16 April | ‘A Life Examined,’ Section B

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Today, ‘A Life Examined’ begins..

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Link | 無爲

From Wikipedia… When you enlarge your mind and let go of it, When you relax your [qi 氣] vital breath and expand it, When your body is calm and unmoving: […]

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Protected: 23 March | ‘The Mirror IX’

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A new book | ‘Nostalgia Cà Phê’

This book is the result of half a dozen trips to Việt Nam, and the conversations that emerged when I was, or wasn’t, looking, and the composite feeling of being-there, […]

Protected: Was there an exchange of value?

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Flight of Pisces

It’s a big day for me, here. I’ve been rewriting. A lot… Because what it is is… developing. A work in progress is like that. You don’t want to talk […]

Breakfast in Cambodia (2016)

Breakfast in Cambodia is a true story of disconnecting from life in a rich, Western country for one year on ‘the road’ in south and southeast Asia. Of landing in […]