existence and aliveness.

In the early 2010s when my wife and I started dating, we looked, lived, and consumed like hipsters, but claimed that we were, in fact, not hipsters. I only mention this fact because I am about to quote a line from Neutral Milk Hotel, and so I wanted to be sure that you know that I know it’s Millennial-hipster lame to do so, but I must. From the prophet, Jeff Mangum in the eponymous song, “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”:

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Is anyone else using Henry Shukman’s The Way app for guided meditation? 🧘🏽‍♂️

I eat the fruit. I may as well believe.

“The caravans had no food, yet food was dropping all about them. If someone had said Look, over here, they would have thought him insane. How can this happen. Am I dreaming? I walk up to the trees. I eat the fruit. I may as well believe.” Rumi, “Visions of Daquqi” This morning, I read A Year With Rumi for the first time in a long time. It had been a while since I’ve read his poetry.

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🎙️I think 60 Songs That Explain the 90s is music journalism at its finest.

Recent Halloween decor finds incorporated into my office. A reminder of the joy of finding the cosmic in the commonplace (and vice-versa.)

don't overthink it.

I’ve had this blog for a little over three years now, but I have barely posted in it. I keep trying to convince myself that I need to have the perfect workflow set up, that this blog will be for x and the x always means a bazillion different things. I overthink it and journal and write about it instead of just posting about it in here, which, truthfully, would make more sense.

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