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Photos from Redwoods National and State Parks

My trip was shortened a bit by a reckless mountain biker who broke my camera and bruised my ribs, but it was lovely until then! I will definitely be back.

#California #National Parks #Ocean #redwoods

Photos from Bay Area, Summer 2025

Northern California, Fall 2025

Calibrating the Three Levers of Self-Loathing, Self-Love, and Self Discovery

Two years ago, a moment of acute and somehow enduring heartache became the unlikely catalyst for the most radical physical transformation of my life. It wasn’t a single decision but the activation of a strange, powerful engine fueled by three levers: self-loathing, self-love, and self-discovery. Through no conscious effort of my own, they reached a state of calibration that saw me more committed…

Photos from Istanbul, Turkey- February and March 2025

A recommendations post will follow in the next few days.

Sequoia National Park October 2024

#California #national park #sequoia national park #trees

Photos from Kings Canyon National Park October 2024

Playground by Richard Powers

Seven Essential Quotes Fifteen minutes after their brief service, Ina’s daughter was skipping down to the waves again, finding new jewels, as if death by plastic ingestion were just another inscrutable myth, as mysterious as a god huddled up in a spinning egg before the beginning of the world. One continuous war game between the two of them dominated my entire childhood. Their tournament was…

Photos from Grand Teton National Park, August 2024

#Grand Teton National Park #Grant Teton #National Parks #Wyoming

Photos from the Camino de Santiago, October 2015

Looking at these photos certainly inspires me to return for another Camino, both for the experience of meeting people from all over the world and of taking photographs now that I know how to use a camera. A lot of these are pretty rough, but it’s also fair to say that cellphone camera technology was not quite as good nine years ago. Anyone want to hit the Way?

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#camino #camino de santiago #Spain #trek

James by Percival Everett

Seven Essential Quotes As I said it, that wave of fear washed over me again. I might have been better off drowning in the river or freezing to death in the night. One thing was certain: I had to make sure Huck didn’t become the corpse they were looking for. More to the point, I had to make certain I didn’t become the corpse they were looking for. I am called Jim. I have yet to choose a name. In…

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Photos from Wupatki National Monument March 2022

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The Trees by Percival Everett

Seven Essential Quotes Everybody talks about genocides around the world, but when the killing is slow and spread over a hundred years, no one notices. Where there are no mass graves, no one notices. American outrage is always for show. It has a shelf life.” Babies are smarter than us. It seems they’re always trying to kill themselves. That’s why we have to watch them every second, so they don’t…

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Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism by Rachel Maddow

Seven Essential Quotes The evidence will show that they intended to abolish the Republican and Democratic parties. The evidence will show that they intended to abolish freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom from arrest without cause, and all the other civil liberties guaranteed us by the constitution. The German propaganda operation in America, according to the…

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An End to Inequality by Jonathan Kozol

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Wupatki National Monument, March 2022

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#arizona #Wupatki

A Little Life by Hana Yanagihara

JB wore a perpetual expression of mild disbelief while at his job, both that he should be working at all and that no one had yet thought to recognize his special genius. You won’t understand what I mean now, but someday you will: the only trick of friendship, I think, is to find people who are better than you are—not smarter, not cooler, but kinder, and more generous, and more forgiving—and then…

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