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...
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...
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...
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...
What Really Wrecked Boeing–Neoliberalism is an ideology that attempts to subject all of human activity to the invisible hand of the market, and since 1997, when Boeing acquired rival McDonnell Douglas (and more consequentially, its management), it has been neoliberalism that has guided the company on its decades-long flight from...
