Archive - The Map is Mostly Water

Happy Independence Day my dear American friends.

Jul 5 •

May 2024

Careful technology

Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An…

May 21 •

April 2024

[subscribers only] Office Hours & Tidings

The Map is Mostly Water Office Hours are open For about 2 days. What do you need feedback or advice on, what questions do you have, what secret trouble…

Apr 27 •

Why Buy a House (or Land)?

A lesson in ignoring economics

Apr 15 •

March 2024

notes on building blocks

Mar 14 •

December 2023

Efforts and Goals and Joy

There was joy in concentration, and the world afforded an inexhaustible wealth of projects to concentrate on. There was joy in effort, and the world…

Dec 31, 2023 •

November 2023

Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice

Speak low if you speak love.

Nov 11, 2023 •

October 2023

Let the world dawn on you (influences pt. 2)

I know the houses too. As I walk along they seem to run forward in the streets to look out at me from every window, and almost to say: "Good-morning…

Oct 7, 2023 •

August 2023

[subscribers only] Ask me Anything

And I thoroughly understand that the god is this way:

Aug 13, 2023 •

July 2023

Reading is alluring. It has a nameless quality beyond satisfying desires for information and pleasure. Despite more colorful and interactive media…

Jul 17, 2023 •

Everything I know about gardening

I have been sharing pictures of flowers growing around my house, mostly little things like poppies and roses, or my fields, and several people have…

Jul 2, 2023 •

June 2023

Agency and Schooling (and gardening)

Jun 7, 2023 •

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