Going Alone

I made this video at Dana Point Harbor in Dana Point, California. I begin the video simply to share a little bit about the surroundings,...

I was asked to share about the work that I do now since returning to the United States. I decided to elaborate with the story of how the opp

I remember when I first thought up the idea of Going Alone. My family and I were living then in Japan, and I was making YouTube videos...

I was never very afraid of the dark, or the things which come out after the sun goes down, to wander, and slither, and creep, and fly...

I once rose late each day to meander life in search of tidbits to consume: news, gossip, politics, and the shared things of the appetites...

What effort is involved in holding a position of faith? The work is in the restraint needed to protect our belief from doubt. We strive...

I awoke today to headlines of war, and gossip, and scandal, and the rise of stocks and advertisements for soap, and a 30% chance of rain...

The price of admittance into the venue and arena of life is the effort and labor of our parents in conceiving, bearing, and bringing us...

Just every once in a while...every so often...I'll spot the Indifference between the moments of my daily life. For, while the Nothing...

Life is a little like coming awake on an island beach, naked and screaming and vulnerable and weak. The natives here do care for us, and...

"...and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!" -Henry David Thoreau I accept life as hard. I...

Whenever I strive, I always fall short. For the fact of striving makes me miss the mark. It would be better to become educated, without...

As a young man, my ideas resembled the ideas of others, and my writing was an imperfect transcription of what I'd learned. My time then...

I began my life as a young adult finding things along the way. I went out from the circumstance I knew into life which was not yet mine,...

Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...

There's this world where I live... And where others like me live. We are there together always. Such a nice place: with the things we...

Emily has produced another drawing for the book. This is an image of The Path of Wildness, which begins and ends nowhere, and is the...

I'd stay where I am, like those before me, and those who are now with me. It is the smart thing to do. To settle down with work, and buy...

I've always been one to notice the hole in the fabric of humanity, where one may press through a finger to the place outside. You can...

I have long dreamed of a nice, personal room where I can work. A little office at home where I can set up a desk and chair and my stuff,...