Tag Archives: writing

Surprise pop-up newsletter: Afterwords Japan.

Want to join a new daily newsletter from my unpublished time in Japan? Of course you do. It will run ephemerally from May 7-31, 2022. Get full details and subscribe HERE.

This grand pop-up newsletter experiment is titled: Afterwords Japan: Through the Torii Gate.

What in the world is a pop-up newsletter, you ask? Well, it’s a newsletter that will disappear once it’s done.

Intersections newsletter: A fresh start.

Big news! Edition number one of my rebooted newsletter is in the wild!

It has been redesigned (for simplicity), renamed (Intersections), and rebooted (the counter is back to zero for a fresh start). This is the heart of where I’ll be pouring my creative efforts over the next while.

I’ve moved to a new service for sending and managing these: Buttondown. It’s run by a team of one and is stripped down to the basics, making it perfect for what a newsletter should be about: writing…

The power of photography.

A while back, the good folks over at local multimedia company Build Films asked me to write a piece for them about the power of photography.  This is the published article, crossposted here to my own website for your own reading:

Here at base camp, the waterfalls are running thinner than I’ve ever seen them; the glaciers above that feed them are returning to their frozen state.  The unseasonably warm sun of a few days previous has relinquished control to winter’s…

The heart of internal work.

We need to see the beauty in things again.
When we wake, we need to hear the birds outside our window and see the sun shine light on the darkness that came in the night.
When we look in the mirror, we need to see ourselves clearly through the fog of self-judgement.
When we go about our day, we need to remember to watch for positivity in the shadows of our bright differences.
When we come home, we need to appreciate who and what we have.
And when we go to bed, we need to remind ourselves…