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Beauty, inspiration and entertainment from Spring 2023
Henry Miller, Carl Jung, Cullen Thomas, Meghan Daum, Aristotle, Samuel R. Delany, The Emerald, Giri / Haji, Count Me In
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The Dream I've Dreamed a Thousand Times
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 25 — One Dream
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I'm here to be myself as much as possible—and the absolute truth can only be...nothing.
A conversation about meaning, identity, physicality, and purpose with Bowen Dwelle and Andy Johns
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Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
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"Writing yourself into existence" with Lyle McKeany
Writing yourself into existence, how writing is like music, whether men can say “sex”, writing memoir as a man, what we're afraid to write about…
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How trust emerges naturally from self-awareness—and eating well
Wayfinding and social adventure in Sardinia
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Sex at Dawn, live at Budokon
Vantasy Island, wild water, Nature Boner aka ecosexuality, the Thrill of Victory, jiujitsu, Sex at Dawn, Chris Ryan, Cameron Shayne, masculinity…
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Chapter 3 — Starting a business at the age of nine to sell D&D books
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 03 — North Dallas Forty
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A Five-Minute Love Affair With Natural Wine
I still love wine... I just don't drink it any longer.
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How to eat the question when someone asks "What's next?"—or anything else, for that matter.
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 21 — Eat the Question
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E14 / Wayfinding with Kim Stanley Robinson
Listen now (64 mins) | How he became a writer, the "Cardboard Set Problem," the deep pleasure of wayfinding, the erotic charge of being in the…
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