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Jul 31, 2026
Each morning I wake up and go to the beach1, without crowds or sticky salt water. After a short swim, because I’m not much of a beach person, I leave for a ten mile walk on...
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Jul 13, 2026
I walk because it allows you to see a place in a way that you can’t when zooming through it, treating it as a spectacle to be commodified1. You get to know it, and the people...
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Jul 2, 2026
“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on a flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
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Feb 26, 2026
(I leave in eight days for Asia, where I will be for six weeks—Seoul, Qingdao, Taipei, Taitung, Okinawa, and hopefully Yangon if I can swing it. I’ve been sidelined by...
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Jan 7, 2026
It is easy to read this newsletter and think I don’t like modern life, because I focus most of my walks on the disenfranchised (regions and people), but despite our...
Jul 31, 2026Each morning I wake up and go to the beach1, without crowds or sticky salt water. After a short swim, because I’m not much of a beach person, I leave for a ten mile walk on...
Jul 13, 2026I walk because it allows you to see a place in a way that you can’t when zooming through it, treating it as a spectacle to be commodified1. You get to know it, and the people...
Jul 2, 2026“To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on a flea, though many there be who have tried it.”
Feb 26, 2026(I leave in eight days for Asia, where I will be for six weeks—Seoul, Qingdao, Taipei, Taitung, Okinawa, and hopefully Yangon if I can swing it. I’ve been sidelined by...
Jan 7, 2026It is easy to read this newsletter and think I don’t like modern life, because I focus most of my walks on the disenfranchised (regions and people), but despite our...