Category: wandering & thinking

  • janu-funk status update

    janu-funk status update

    The problem with having so many outdoor hobbies and also living in a city that is frozen solid for four months of the year comes down to the problem of January. January sucks in that regard. I could suck it up, of course, and go out winter hiking or put on my cross country skis

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  • objectively spry

    objectively spry

    One quote that sums up your 2026 is… Flexibility. Now, before you go thinking this is some kind of subtle yoga reference, consider one fact: I’m writing this post on December 31st —and not on the thirtieth like I should be. Like, the timestamp will imply. I am being flexible. My life has been filled

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  • different

    different

    What do you think the world will be like 25 years in the future? A lot can happen in twenty-five years. I know my little world has changed in ways that I never would have fathomed. And I think that is likely true for most anyone. Think about meeting yourself from twenty five years in

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  • social games, four

    social games, four

    What did you want this year …but not get? It was something ineffable.  Because all I really wanted this year was some kind of reassurance, clinging to the frosty winter air, that the raw stupid of modern society might be waning, that people have started to see through the fog of misinformation and impending societal

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  • who cares

    who cares

    Explain a valuable life lesson you learned in 2025. No one cares. Hold up. Wait. Listen.  Whoa: I don’t mean that in a sad-sack, pity me kind of way. What I mean is that figuring out some perspective on the attention of others is actually, factually something that has taken me decades to put into

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