The Pit of Despair (And Why We Need to Stop Digging)
You know that feeling when you’ve tried so many times to fix something that you just… stop trying? When the effort itself feels pointless because nothing ever…
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Remember When?
Remember when neighbors used to borrow cups of sugar? Not just when they were desperately out, but because borrowing and lending was just what people did. It…
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It Made a Difference to That One
I once heard a story about a man walking along the beach after a storm. The sand was littered with starfish, thousands of them, washed up and…
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We Keep Talking About “Community,” But Do We Even Remember What It Means?
What would it take to build and promote real community and cooperation at scale? This is a question that’s been chewing on my mind for a while…
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Are We Really ‘Civilized,’ or Just Domesticated
This morning I was listening to a lecture by Luke Kemp about the fall of civilizations and it started me thinking about the word civilized. It’s a…
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Not Everyone Shines the Same, and That’s the Point
At some point, as social movements progressed in the West, “equality” became the holy word. Every movement, every cause, every speech since the French Revolution seems to…
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The Case for Going Feral (Even in the City)
What might feral living in an urban environment look like? And by feral, I don’t mean running naked through alleyways or squatting in abandoned buildings (though, to…
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We’ve All Been Othered
I get the feeling that most of us don’t really belong anywhere anymore? Like we’ve each been quietly pushed into our own little boxes; online, in our…
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Making a Place, Not Just a Space
There’s a corner in every town that everyone drives past but no one really sees. Maybe it’s an empty lot, maybe it’s an old building with boarded…
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Between the Lines: Finding Balance in How We Communicate
You ever notice how sometimes you can feel like you said all the right words but still not be understood? Like, you spelled it out perfectly, you…