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"One spring day during the early stage of the pandemic, while walking in my local park in New Haven, I noticed a young beech with mysterious dark bands on its foliage. With the sunlight shining from above, I could clearly see the alternating stripes. At the time, I misread the phenomenon as leaf variegation, thinking I had stumbled across a rare specimen of beech..."
"How to Pace an IKEA Parking Lot," The Believer
"For me, extended time in parking lots has always signified an emergency, precise moments of narrative dissolution: one version of the good life has come apart irretrievably, and you must, humbly, construct another."
"Swimming in the Wild Will Change You," The Atlantic
"Perhaps wild swimming—the practice of swimming in rivers, ponds, and lakes—could be a new opportunity to pay more attention to the waterways close to home."
"What It Would Take to See the World Differently," The Atlantic
"Is wonder still possible, given our climate crisis? Wonder implies some degree of leisure and time; it requires slow, sustained, and contemplative attention—a luxury that, perhaps, we can no longer afford."
"Compassion Drove Dad to the Salad Bar—That, And Fear of Alien Abduction," NPR
Each time we ate a pig or chicken, we risked eating one of our ancestors. You just never knew when you'd be biting into a forebear."
"The Christmas Frog," The New York Times
"Last winter, on Christmas Eve, I found a frog in my lettuce...I wasn’t prepared to discover wildlife in my kitchen."
"Heaven is a Pitch Black Earth," The Outline
"In 585 BC, a solar eclipse apparently ended a years-long war between Medes and Lydia...Perhaps the Great American Eclipse would have a similar effect?"
"The Beginning of the End," The New Republic
"The opening ceremony will be crammed, predictably, with these pseudo-talismanic rituals. I’m sure few of us will be thinking, what a rousing display of the warding off of death."
Other contributions: "Prime of Life," Issue 77 of Conjunctions, States of Play: The Games Issue; "Letter to McSweeney's", Issue 69 of McSweeney's Quarterly Concern; "To Perform or Not to Perform," Issue 24 of Arts of the Working Class; "Who Haunts," Smithsonian Sidedoor Podcast; "Better," Issue 007 of The New Haven Review; "Letters to his neighbor," Issue 021 of The New Haven Review; "Alternate Canon," Apogee Journal; "The Story Behind Great Taste's "Five Dumplings for a Dollar" Deal," The Margins by the Asian American Writers Workshop; and more, for Vice and The Village Voice.
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