What I'm doing now

Currently

A living page. Not a feed, not an archive — just where I am at the moment. Updated when life shifts. Last tended on May 2, 2026.

Reading

  • The Hour of Land

    Terry Tempest Williams · Slowly. One park at a time.

  • Bluets

    Maggie Nelson · Re-reading. Different book this year.

  • How to Do Nothing

    Jenny Odell · Underlining more than I'm reading.

Thinking about

  • What does it mean to write without an audience in mind?
  • The difference between rest and recovery.
  • Why I keep returning to the same three poets.
  • Whether attention itself is the practice.

Working on

  • An essay on small windows

    Drafting
  • A series on inherited recipes

    Brewing
  • Newsletter no. 14 — on slowness

    Editing

Listening & watching

  • Album

    A Light for Attracting Attention — The Smile

  • Podcast

    On Being — Krista Tippett with Ross Gay

  • Film

    Perfect Days (Wim Wenders)

Small joys

  • Lemons in the kitchen window.
  • A neighbour's cat that visits at dusk.
  • Walking without a destination.
  • The first hot drink of the morning.
  • Letters that arrive on paper.

Complaining about

  • tetsssttt

Inspired by the /now page movement. This isn't a feed — it changes when I do.

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