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Or, Why “Content” Makes My Skin Crawl There’s a kind of quiet shock that happens when you stumble, mid-scroll, onto something real. You’ve been swimming through sludge for so long that your eyes have adjusted to the brown water — and then suddenly, there it is: a hand-carved boat, gliding on purpose. Maybe it’s a … Read more
Back to the Ground: Leaving the Creator Economy The Vegas Strip of Socials When I finally stepped back toward art as a career, I did what everyone said you’re supposed to do: I walked straight onto the neon promenade of the platforms. It was all there — the carnival barkers with growth hacks, the slot … Read more
The Joke That Isn’t a Joke Here’s a hilarity I didn’t order: my long, carefully structured essays about precarity, value, and the quiet violences of “content” get ten times the traffic of my actual handmade work. Google, apparently, is a connoisseur of fury—so long as the fury is arranged in clean paragraphs with descriptive subheads. … Read more
There’s a different kind of silence on the internet now. Not peace — vacancy. You can feel it in the empty timelines, the vanished conversations, the shop links that used to hum with life but now lead nowhere. It’s not just quiet; it’s abandonment. It’s the hollow ache of realizing that everyone you once built … Read more
The universe, I’ve come to believe, is not a single room with a locked door but a house still being built—its foundations laid in matter, its upper stories rising through light. What we call creation is not finished; it is ongoing architecture, widening in both stone and spirit. I write this as someone who has … Read more
There’s never really a “good time” for a trade war. But if you happen to run a one-person creative business that relies on cross-border shipping between Canada and the U.S., there’s definitely a bad one — and this was it. When new tariffs dropped, it didn’t just mean price hikes or political noise. It meant … Read more
How social-media manifesting gutted a mystic’s gospel of creative communion. The Age of Algorithmic Faith Open any social platform and you’ll find a liturgy of abundance. Glittering affirmations promise five-figure miracles in ten days; influencers speak in the soft tones of preachers, their sermons delivered to ring-light congregations. The algorithm rewards devotion. Every scroll is … Read more
Somewhere along the way, “independent artist” stopped meaning free.Now it often means burned out, underpaid, over-algorithmed, and expected to stay grateful for the scraps. We’ve been told that “community” will save us — as long as we perform enough, post enough, and smile enough. That success is a popularity contest, and silence is a flaw. … Read more
why faith sometimes feels like remembering a dream you didn’t live, but still know by heart If you grew up inside a church, the first sound of the sacred was probably someone else’s voice — the priest, the choir, the murmured rhythm of prayer.Mine began under the vaulted quiet of Catholic chapels: the smell of … Read more