A singer, a songwriter, a composer, an author. A poet through and through.
In a world that can get ugly, I try to make beautiful things. Here you will find the latest of my art, in whatever form that may be. May it reach you in some small, meaningful way.
In a world that's always trying to optimize you out of your own life, I hope to inspire you to have the courage to go your own way.
What is wayfinding? It's what we used to do before anyone had all the answers. When maps were at best a good start on a journey that was otherwise yours.
A short meditation on our tendency as artists to cannibalize our own best work.
Sometimes what we tend to think of as linear processes may be better understood as non-linear, interconnected, and intricately responsive wholes (or gestalten).
Art is all about impressions. Just because you want something to feel a certain way doesn’t mean it has to be that way.
I think as a writer there is a lasting tension between the things you want to be on the record for as having said, and the things that might better reach your readers because they are said differently.
In regard to taking a chance on ourselves, most of our fears essentially boil down to being afraid of failing in public. And there is some validity here. I don't think we should do away with this fear entirely, pretending for even a moment that we could.
What does adventure look like in a world that has largely been explored? Today, when we have questions, it’s because we don’t know; in the past, because no one knew. That’s a very different world. And today I ask…is the world really at our fingertips if everything is already in arm’s reach? It may be...
I want you to answer this question honestly: What’s the weather like today? Being the year 2025, there’s a chance you reached for your phone just now. That was me the other day. Standing in my living room just 2 steps from the door, wondering what the weather was like outside. But I didn’t open...
I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.
I think that in many ways “talent” is an adolescent idea that we unknowingly carry with us into adulthood, failing to question its worth or validity ever again.
The smaller thing that you will actually do is often worth more than the larger thing that you’ll only think of doing. At a first pass, this seems rather simple and obvious. But therein lies another lesson—the most powerful notions are often the ones that lack the complexity to be anything else. As the saying...
On Suffering, Meaning, and the Path to Paradise I often wonder how I should begin when writing to a stranger. So much of what makes our lived experience so deep is in the stories that we carry with us, whether our own or that of others. And so much of what makes conversation so meaningful...
And I think it's something we must contend with...that at the center of our most cherished insistences, lies a spirit that we may barter with, but bear no hope of ever owning.
We forgive the naïvety of our youth. For they forgive all of the things we are instead.
It’s not the things we do that we live to regret, but rather the things that we never did. A mistake can be forgiven, but life un-lived is not so easily forgotten.