postcards from an off-grid cabin (+ a discount code for you)

i don’t remember how i originally found about about unyoked. probably searching the internet for off-grid cabins or something. originally only available to visit in various parts of australia, they now also have cabins in new zealand, as well as the uk. last november, nic and i headed out to enjoy a few nights surrounded […]

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18,000 kilometres — from one tiny island to another

I’m thrilled to have been selected to attend a Singla Creative Group Residency on the arctic island of Arnøya in Norway in July 2024. (No, I hadn’t heard of this place until a few months ago. Yes, I had to look Arnøya up on a map too). Singla is an historic homestead on Arnøya that […]

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commonplace vignettes

Hello Wednesday. Hello friends. I’m thinking about clothing for slow days. Ones in which i can sit and meditate, or stare out the window into the garden. Ones that aren’t too tight, or feel like I’m wearing uncomfortable scaffolding. Ones that embrace me as i am praying for peace & understanding to leave a mark […]

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postcards from onetangi beach

the leaves on certain trees are already sprouting their brightest of bright green shoots, pale pink buds of the first fruits are forming, and the magnolias have had their short and astonishingly beautiful hurrah. the brightness is arriving in the sky earlier and earlier each morning and it has now become appropriate to take long […]

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august ending, a list

the end of august always seems to perform a kind of seasonal alchemy; taking a dose of the winter dormancy from july and a hint of liminal august lethargy, mixing it with some blue skies and warming sunshine and turning it into a fresh new energy full of potential. things begin blooming and there’s evidence […]

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