This newsletter is an exploration of why we tell stories and how we stay connected— with our communities, with each other, with ourselves— and a portal to those who are probably doing much better thinking about this on both fronts.
When I started writing a newsletter in 2018, I wrote that I wanted to have ownership of my own archives, and that’s still the case. But Substack feels like the middle way between remaining connected to an ecosystem of thinking, while not living in service of the great social media machine.
This newsletter is mostly monthly missives, but it runs like an old friendship strong enough to withstand occasional absences— You won't be spammed daily. We'll pick up from where we left off the last time.

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Writer, documentarian, anthropologist and aspiring neo-luddite