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Field Notes

Recent reflections on meditation, creativity, climate, grief, and the social experiments. Long-form essays live on Substack. The list below is a slow drip from the last year.

Walking the Appalachian Trail without becoming a different person

Mar 02, 2026

I expected to come back changed. Instead I came back tired, kinder, and far more curious about other people's mornings.

What I learned from a year of practicing only one instrument

Jan 18, 2026

I put down everything except the trumpet for twelve months. The instrument did not get better. I did.

Climate grief is a love letter you didn't mean to write

Nov 30, 2025

Notes from a slow conversation with a place I won't see in the same shape again.

How to start a small social experiment with friends

Sep 09, 2025

On running a 30-day attention practice with eleven people, two of whom were not entirely consenting.

Building things that could exist

Jul 04, 2025

Why I stopped pretending every project of mine was already real.

Meditation for people who don't trust meditation

May 20, 2025

What changed when I stopped trying to feel calm and started trying to feel honest.

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