Posts

A memory of first meetings, public strangeness, childlike gestures, attraction, and the shock of encountering someone who carries a complete inner world.

A long answer to what one seeks in romantic love: not passive fulfillment, but a moral practice through which action reveals the self.

A collection of marked passages from Murakami's running memoir, circling rhythm, self-competition, discipline, aging, and writing as thinking.

A short note for an experimental remix of Kenny Garrett and Svoy's Ascendence, with an embedded audio track.

A living list of sentences and principles from scripture, Amazon decision-making, and other thinkers that serve as personal orientation points.

Lessons from tennis about adjustment, selective effort, staying in the game, infinite games, and the mental discipline of long competition.

Notes from MIFF 2024, moving through strange dreams, gendered storytelling, Southeast Asian landscapes, body horror, and cinema as sensory disturbance.

A short, evolving roster of people whose work, lives, or presence feel worth remembering.

A quiet Melbourne grocery-store encounter becomes a meditation on anonymity, small acts of care, and the way a stranger becomes specific after death.

A spare English poem about uneven desire, cooling fire, and the asymmetry inside love.