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January-2026-Updates
I follow a lot of blogs by RSS and enjoy reading other people's week notes on their lives and the things they've read. Its a personal moment of human recommendation and curation that is sorely needed in this age of slop. I've tried doing something similar before but have always dropped it. So I'm picking it up again. Weekly is a bit too quick for me so I'm going to try to do it monthly.
2025 in review: Defining Enough
2025 was a difficult year in many respects. Instead of dwelling on that, I thought I would review the year based on the theme I set at the start of the year - The Year of Enough.
Signal Not Found
Elm trunk picked out in mustard.
The suggestion of erased branches.
Light only falls so far.
Finding some intentionality amidst the scroll
The blog has taken a slight pause because I moved house. During all the stress and frantic packing, I relaxed by opening my phone and reading as much out of context information as I could until my brain felt fried. It wasn't particularly enjoyable and yet I kept doing it.
Tempestuous
Friction is the point
LLMs and generative AI may be easy, but the hard stuff is the point because the friction of art is where the magic is. Art is not a product to be instantly spat out. I've been thinking about this since I updated my site to include an AI disclaimer and before AI was as widespread as it is now. Any artist will tell you that the process of making art is where the real magic happens.
Clearings
Violent patches, forgotten space
where green is crushed,
where green shudders to mud,
where green becomes tarmac
The People Disagree
How not to make things perfectly zine
Recently, I've been enjoying making zines. There's something fun about using your hands to make an object, especially when so much of our lives are digital. I've added a few one pagers to my projects page and itch.io.
Tubers
becoming more than simple root by
breathing in sweet loam
rolling a body into a pebble
churning under the surface
while dreaming deep in fever
of the power to divide
endlessly, divide endlessly
while never blinking