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New project underway!
I’m far enough along that I can open up about what I’m working on: an album rooted in my experience of growing up a man in Vermont and all that includes and the impact it’s had on me. There’s so much to talk about, and it’s too early to share very many details beyond vague ideas right now. I do like being open about my process, ideas, and progress though, so I’d like to share what I can of what I’ve been doing musically over the past few weeks while also gadding about in other ways (mental and not!).

Learning to Be Impacted: On Support during Spiritual Emergence
Practical grounding. Healing isn’t only mystical and transcendent. It’s also remembering to eat, noticing when you haven’t slept in days, having someone check in when you’ve gone too quiet. The body needs tending while the spirit does its work.

Catching up
To anyone stopping by because I sent them a resume, welcome! It’s weird here, and a lot of things have happened to me and us since I last posted here.

Walking Along the Edge of the Event Horizon
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My writing life and software
Note: MarginNote, UlyssesBrainstorm: Scapple, Aeon TimelineSketch: Omnigraffle, paper and pen(cil)Research: Zotero, MarginNote, ToDoistDrafts: UlyssesEdit: UlyssesPublish: Microsoft Word, Scrivener, Zotero And there it is, really. Zotero, ToDoist, and MarginNote do the heavy lifting for research, next-steps, bibliography, and annotations. Ulysses is my clear goto for writing, note taking, and working out ideas in text. Omnigraffle is where I go for all things visual unless I’m sketching in a notebook. And for final publication, I export from Ulysses to Microsoft Word or Scrivener for larger projects.

First of April end of day check in. How are you all?
As always, I hope this finds you all well and able to find yourselves well, hale, and with as much love as possible in this world. I’m with you. 🐇 🙏🏻🎶💜

Thoughts on design
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Too many books?
To design something is to make manifest a potential thing which in turn affects human entities. This is a notion of design that is not considered very carefully amongst the everyday work that we do, but that I believe should become more top-of-mind in the coming months.

Moby Dick and the Question of Mind
If this thought had occurred to Ahab, perhaps he would have recognized his agonizing struggle as not a struggle against God, but as a warning that he was taking action in a way that was abhorrent to nature. He could have recognized that it was unnatural to hunt and kill whales in the first place. Imagine if that had been the outcome of Ahab’s struggle: the realization that it was against the laws of nature for humans to kill whales. In the end, Ahab’s sacrifice was for nought. Moby Dick destroyed his ship and crew, and humans have tried to curtail the act of killing whales in general. In the end, after all, nature won. It always does, because it’s all that is.

The journey continues: Intermittent Ph.D. diary #1
I still contend that the loneliest Ph.D. to do is one in the field of sustainability. Maybe especially in the field of sustainability as interpreted through the practice of design. I can’t be sure, but it’s a gut feeling I have about it. There is a vast community of sustainabilists (sustainabilers? sustainabilitons?), though, so I know I’m not entirely alone. I feel that the effects of COVID-19 are also exaggerating the level of isolation I’m feeling. Even though I’m not really isolated, I mean, I’m married with kids and my dad lives with us, so I’ve got company. But there is an umbra of hovering doom, it seems, right? Maybe not doom, but a kind of foreboding or feeling of things-yet-to-come floating around in the ether. That’s the feeling that’s been so hard to shake since March or so. How are you doing?

Writing

I’ve been writing for the Internet since at least 1998, probably earlier when I got my badger.jsc.vsc.edu email address. The following is the most recent collection of essays, blogs, and articles going back over a decade. Currently, I focus on the threads that connect my inner life to culture, community, healing, and the ongoing work of being in this strange place. It’s a mix of personal reflection, systems thinking, and occasional rabbit holes I just can’t resist.

Making Music from Presence

Three weeks ago at winter solstice, something cracked open in me that hasn’t closed back up. At the time, I recorded/performed eight tracks in four days — minimal techno, ambient downtempo, arpeggiated grooves that just wanted to run. All of it performed live in Logic Pro, no backing out of the flow, just riding whatever […]

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