Archive - future recuperation

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 Once upon a time the…

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 •

October 2020

The very first thing I did my very first day working on a tallship was nearly cut the tip of my finger off slicing limes in the middle of the breakfast…

Oct 1, 2020 •

May 2020

For twelve hours a week I struggle through their picnics (“Don’t forget the Käse, Tim! Ha ha ha ha ha!”) and job interviews and endless shopping trips…

May 12, 2020 •

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