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Horticulture and conservation – and actually agriculture, too – are often thought of as different conversations, but I think it’s all the same thing. It’s all to do with our relationship to the earth, the soil, the natural world.
For millennials who share a vaguely similar worldview to my own, there is an implicit question that lies underneath any pregnancy announcement. It’s not always spoken, but heavily implied: How can you bring another life into all this?
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I love the idea that “the best artists tend to be the people with the most sensitive antennae.” Though I’ll admit my antennae feels pretty dull right now.
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"There are gifted people everywhere turned off by the relentless pursuit of external validation. And failure, in the eyes of others, may represent…
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"And yet it turned out everything I lost was the exact stuff I needed to let go of. But once you do that you’re basically starting at zero, and that’s…
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I spent the first week of the year away in Amsterdam. I was actually supposed to be in California, but for the second time in a few years, I canceled a…
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Recently I was conducting an interview for a forthcoming edition of this newsletter and the subject asked me a question: What is the unifying theme of…
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TLDR: What follows is a quick update about the future of this newsletter. From Friday December 2, all the content in this newsletter will be available…
Recently, I’ve become very guilty of waiting for “the perfect” time to write. The time when I have childcare, when the kitchen countertops are clear…
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There’s a common conceit in journalism these days that I like to think of as the “I regret to inform you” take. It goes something like this: “Everybody…
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I am really bad at texting people back. In my old life, pre 2020, I wasn’t particularly great at it—and I certainly didn’t enjoy it as a form of…
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What Do We Do Now That We're Here?

A newsletter about how to live a meaningful life in a chaotic, unstable world. I'm trying to find the place between denial and nihilism, and set up a life there. Come join me for monthly essays, Q&As, links, tips, and shreds of sanity.
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