Archive - future recuperation

my favorite books i read this year

I read a lot in 2024; I read a lot all the time, although since 2020 the bulk of my reading diet has comprised a staggering number of truly inane…

Dec 22, 2024 •

October 2024

the view from the hill

It is not possible to reconcile what should have been and what was. It is not possible to reconcile what is and what should be. But here we are, living…

Oct 7, 2024 •

December 2023

Our work now: We know it. None of us are free until all of us are free.

Dec 21, 2023 •

May 2023

the early history of light

I know that reads like something out of a story, but that’s just how things used to be there.

May 18, 2023 •

September 2022

Sometimes you will knock over half the tray of welcome drink on yourself and, covered in champagne at 9am in the early stages of a sixteen-hour day, you…

Sep 2, 2022 •

June 2022

despair has its own calms

If I am ever trapped on a boat that is actually a cage maze with fake hazards, I guess I will do fine.

Jun 7, 2022 •

March 2022

the story of the deckhand who pretended to be a sea-captain

as related to me by the sea-captain M.— C.—, in a tavern in the port of Hamburg, in the summer of the year before the plague

Mar 21, 2022 •

December 2021

the city of cats

In the grass and over and under every corrugated-tin fishing shack and ramshackle dinghy lounged cats: cats rummaging through piles of fish heads, cats…

Dec 15, 2021 •

June 2021

The ship sailed out of Harlingen late at night with the high tide, the ragged end of the waning blood moon swollen huge and low over the water, the…

Jun 21, 2021 •

May 2021

mouse gardening

On March 8th of last year I walked out of my apartment in New York for what would be the last time, although I didn’t know that then.

May 18, 2021 •

January 2021

the story of why sailors sing at sea

The sky was dense with white-spun clouds and everything looked like a black-and-white picture. White snow, grey stone, grey water, grey light. “Hey…

Jan 14, 2021 •

December 2020

There are a lot of sea-stories about Heinke, all of them as wonderful as they are true.

Dec 14, 2020 •

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