there’s something deeply Melvillean about Phoenix, Arizona

i’m like if Jack Kerouac was a better person and smarter and more morally ambitious and a better hitchhiker

To truly understand “wilderness” you need to spend some weeks in roadless areas, inventoried roadless areas, like the Bob Marshall or Frank Church. People wanting to end this category of public lands have no clue as to their immense value. montanafreepress.org/2025/06/24/tru…

this was my first time painting a fund launch party & it was not what i expected it was a renaissance party combined with a warehouse rave at some point i look up & a blue school bus full of poetry is parking inside the warehouse & no one seems fazed?? 1517 Fund

i wonder who the most Good Will Hunting coded character at Harvard is now that i’m gone

saw whales blowholing today right outside my house for free, a half hour north of SF. buslife undefeated.

i mean this in the “Massachusetts townie with a library cahd, a tragic backstory, and CPTSD” way more than in the “good at math” way

Joseph Campbell, what a passage

if you’re ambitious, please read this poem

giant colorful school buses, once endemic to the San Francisco Bay Area of the 1960s, are now critically endangered to the brink of extinction— but look closely at certain gravel pulloffs in Marin County, & you’ll find this marvelous species still thrives in its natural habitat

if you go on a long walk, nimble little fingers of the psyche will start subconsciously pulling at knots that have been on your mind a while. you won’t realize this has been happening until— eureka! the idea crystallizes! the knot unwinds!

which do you tend to “follow” in order to apprehend the others?

Probably one of the most prophetic paragraphs of the twentieth century - from Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death (1985)

i’m building a beautiful life of sustainable freedom for myself, piece by piece. i’ve been moving slowly, gathering strength. tomorrow i’ll spend all day sewing new curtains for the best home i’ve ever had, the home i built myself. i might as well be sewing my own chrysalis 🦋

this is what it looks like after you grease a 36-foot school bus btw

every imperfect chink in our psychology can, with enough reflection, illuminate the universe

who wants an extra BURNING MAN TICKET?! 🔥

sure, NYC may be the greatest city in the world, but San Francisco is the greatest city in AMERICA

ACTION is the opposite of anxiety

most of human history was Minecraft Survival Mode. America is how we unlocked Creative Mode