Last Quarter

Jul
10
A leafy green plant with seed-covered spikelets, rising from a crack in the pavement.

Last Quarter: The settler's dilemma in the age of apocalypse

Hello. It's Friday, and recently my household has harvested our garlic, tamed unruly cucumber vines, watched tomato fruits
21 min read
Jun
12
The Milky Way and endless millions of other stars stretch over the silhouettes of conifer trees. The sky's color is blue, purple, and pink.

Last Quarter: Thoughts outside of an afterlife

Hello. It's Friday. And although there has been no drastically negative shift in my own life past what
3 min read
May
15
The Manhattan skyline viewed from upon the island itself. Skyscrapers are lit up amid a pink, hazy sundown.

Last Quarter: Autism versus modernity

Hello. It's Friday, and I am riding the high of creation. Any time I step, look, or listen
24 min read
Apr
10
An aerial view of a white industrial building whose shape and surrounding parking lot form a rather soulless footprint on the surrounding green landscape.

Last Quarter: The maximum entropy scam

Hello. It's Friday, and at this latitude Orion has begun setting before midnight, and come nightfall I expect
19 min read
Mar
13
A tunnel of sand and stone, with a golden light at the far end.

Last Quarter: Near-death

Hello. It's Friday, and the red-winged blackbirds have now returned to congregate by the woodland brook. Large
9 min read
Feb
13
Two images of the same pale blue gas giant planet, its thin ring seeming to spin "vertically" around it rather than horizontally.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Eliminating eccentricities

Hello. It's Friday, and because I'm going to be traveling in a few hours I only
5 min read
Jan
16
A colored engraving of the constellation Capricorn, with the stars filled in to seem like a goat with a curving fish tail.

Last Quarter: My Capricorn Moon

9 min read
Dec
12
A collection of boulders covered by a flatter stone slab, surrounded by other stones in a circle. It's either sunrise or sunset.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): The anthropology of mortality

Hello. It's Friday, and there has been a death in our home. Yesterday my owner's immensely
3 min read
Nov
28
The usual black & white woodcut skeletons again.

First Quarter: No post this week

Hello all. It should probably be my last of these frequent disruptions until whenever I find a new job, but
1 min read
Nov
14
A round, rocky, icy object in outer space. Its color is mostly a kind of eggshell white with some browner smears here and there.

Last Quarter (Zodiac Series): Scorpio's generation

Hello. It's Friday, and it's chilly, and the trees are nearly bare, and the Pleiades are
11 min read