Slow nonfiction about attention, design, possession, and the texture of everyday life. There aren’t many here yet; I write at the speed of contemplation.
What it means to have something. Not legal title, not even use, but the ongoing relationship of perception, responsibility, and care that turns ownership into something worth the word.
Read the essay →Eco-penance, virtue signaling, carbon offsets as indulgences, original sin as carbon footprint. A look at how climate discourse quietly reproduces the mechanics of Catholic guilt, and where the energy might be better spent.
Read the essay →Everything in a city is under human control, and yet living there still produces loneliness, disempowerment, and friction. An essay on compartmentalization, ownership, and how we might still build cities that empower the people who live in them.
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