Exile Lifestyle

I’ve been trying to maintain a focal balance between what’s going on today, right now, in this moment, and what’ll happen next: where I’d like to be, what I’d prefer to be doing, where I’ll go and what that will…

I’ve been thinking about what it means to be a traveler during a period in which travel is not just ill-advised, but also less possible. To be clear: travel is a very bad idea during a pandemic if you can…

There’s an organization called The Long Now Foundation that focuses on planting seeds for long-term thinking. Their most well-known project is the 10,000 Year Clock, which is a mechanical clock conceived back in 1986, a full-scale version of which is being…

One of the most disconcerting aspects of living through a pandemic is the assortment of unknowns we face on a daily basis. How many infected? How many dead? Transmission rate? Spikes, plateaus, curves? How many actually infected and killed by this disease,…

The other day I received an email from a student who attended a talk I gave at her school a few years ago. I remember chatting with her after the presentation because she was passionate about a specific artistic movement,…

The loss of peripheral perception—often called “tunnel vision”—is a common affliction faced by people in the midst of a disaster. It makes sense that if your home is torn apart by a tornado and you’re searching for loved ones in…