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81 from 11 Jun 2020 to 25 Jul 2026
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2026 6

  1. An interview about parenting, some tidings, and [paid subscribers] Ask Me Anything about parenting
  2. Fujifilm X100 vs Leica Q vs Ricoh GR
  3. Veganism and Moral Intuitions
  4. Designing a New Old Home: Mistakes
  5. For Babies: Things You Need and Don't
  6. Ink in the Stomach

2025 6

  1. Viscerality
  2. Californias
  3. Growing a Hornbeam Hedge
  4. creatures of temperament
  5. Why make something beautiful?
  6. Love Grows

2024 8

  1. Resist Summary
  2. School is Not Enough
  3. Breadcrumbs
  4. quests, failure, desire
  5. Careful technology
  6. [subscribers only] Office Hours & Tidings
  7. Why Buy a House (or Land)?
  8. Small Spaces

2023 12

  1. Efforts and Goals and Joy
  2. Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice
  3. Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2)
  4. [subscribers only] Ask me Anything
  5. Reading Well
  6. Everything I know about gardening
  7. Agency and Schooling (and gardening)
  8. Sympathies (influences pt. 1)
  9. Designing a New Old Home: Light
  10. A lot with a little
  11. Dispatches from childhood
  12. The Oak and the Reed

2022 22

  1. How to Cook for Odysseus
  2. What is Good Within Social Networks
  3. [subscribers only] Ask Me Anything about My Home (or Yours)
  4. Designing a New Old Home: Materials and Hardware
  5. Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness
  6. Building The Goose Palace
  7. The King and the Hermit
  8. Designing a New Old Home: The Elements
  9. Designing a New Old Home: Defining Constraints
  10. Designing a New Old Home: Research, Sketch, Collect
  11. [subscribers only] Ask Me Anything
  12. Start With Creation
  13. The Hidden Storehouse
  14. Designing a New Old Home: Curiosity
  15. The Goose Palace
  16. Designing a New Old Home: Beginnings
  17. Welcome, ghosts
  18. Patina and Intimacy
  19. The Frog and the Ox
  20. [subscribers only] Ask Me Anything
  21. The Forest Monk
  22. Long Distance Thinking

2021 13

  1. The Sage's Garden
  2. What the Lion Knows
  3. Photo Editing: Respecting Context
  4. Quiet Listening / The Last Guest
  5. The Most Precious Resource is Agency
  6. Exacting
  7. Stoicism is Not Enough
  8. Sages and Scoundrels
  9. What the Mouse Knows
  10. The Fox and the Cat
  11. The Mushroom Pickers
  12. Are We Still Thinking?
  13. The Money Fairies

2020 14

  1. That which is unique, breaks
  2. Familiarity and Belonging
  3. The Rude Priest
  4. In Between
  5. Where to Live
  6. Son, Sun
  7. The Deathless Land
  8. In Praise of the Gods
  9. The Proud Fox
  10. Photography Workflow
  11. On the Usefulness of Photography
  12. The Young Servant
  13. Nature
  14. Dear Friends