Category: Daily Muse

  • Cascade-Basin Trail in NH

    The biggest difference between school and hiking is whether failure is an option.

  • keeping score is a matter of relation

    This week I’ve been mulling over how much information can be gleaned from score alone when it comes to pickleball. It’s kind of gorgeous. When the score is announced, three numbers are announced. For example, 1-0-2 means that the home team has 1 point, the away team 0; the last number indicates whose turn it…

  • have fun!

    It’s not just a laugh: it’s mental preservation!

  • for jamie

    You can make every other mistake under the sun. You can get a devastating diagnosis. You can invest in a relationship that benefits you naught at all. You can hurt, and get hurt. You can eat trash and watch trash until your mind becomes fuzzy.

  • dinner at Gibbet Hill

    An old high school classmate of mine invited me to dinner with her family, despite us not being as close as students.

  • Contracts

    I would argue that the first defined contract that young people encounter is that of student and teacher.

  • GUEST POST: Jamie

    Something that inspires the accusation of being a “poet” and encourages cultists to give you a little extra attention in the recruitment square: a lack of clarity. It’s important to lack clarity. It’s important not to lack clarity. You want to be clear and transparent or faithful and dogged. You also want to be multivariate…

  • forever is easy

    Because dreams never lie, do they?

  • hidden valley ranch

    windows, salads, and strangers we can dress them all as we choose

  • what makes a good dancer

    I think being a dancer requires a kind of weirdness. Bodies need to move for survival… but perhaps not like that.