“You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.” — James Baldwin

A story can be a ritual in words; sometimes a ritual is a story in action.

⚘ Martin Shaw, Smoke Hole: Looking to the Wild in the Time of the Spyglass

"If prose is a house, poetry is a man on fire running quite fast through it."

Today I am announcing the release of my venture backed startup called “Earth”. On “Earth” you can sit in a park or cafe and have a drink with your friends or even by yourself if you want. Innovators are stunned and speechless.

Two tofu banh mi, to cure

In Chinese myth, Chaos is not a figure of Evil (as in most western mythology) but is instead full of potential, benevolent if somewhat eerie, the ultimate force and source of all creation, of the myriad things like seeds in a gourd or the chopped up goodies in a won-ton, or the water in a spillover-vessel which flows out, letting each stream find its own channel, fertilising the earth, bringing everything into becoming.

foxing: brownish mold stains which appear in either small, bull's eye- or larger snowflake-like patterns.

wormholes: loss of the entire substrate from channeling by bookworms, etc.