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Apr 21, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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
Jul 8, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
The Dream I've Dreamed a Thousand Times
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 25 — One Dream
Jul 26, 2023
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
Jun 10, 2023 • 
Andy Johns
 and 
Bowen Dwelle
"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…
May 20, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
 and 
Lyle McKeany
Doing my best to get my nose in it
Memoir and personal essay on identity, intuition, addiction and more.
Sep 18, 2022 • 
Bowen Dwelle
How trust emerges naturally from self-awareness—and eating well
Wayfinding and social adventure in Sardinia
Jun 26, 2024 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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…
Sep 15, 2022 • 
Bowen Dwelle
Chapter 3 — Starting a business at the age of nine to sell D&D books
An Ordinary Disaster — chapter 03 — North Dallas Forty
Jan 27, 2023 • 
Bowen Dwelle
A Five-Minute Love Affair With Natural Wine
I still love wine... I just don't drink it any longer.
Nov 3, 2022 • 
Bowen Dwelle
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
Jun 21, 2023
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…
Jan 23, 2023
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