guide.notes 14 | artist-entrepreneur
dear wayfinding friends, ~this is guide.notes 14, where I obsess over the process of growing fruit-bearing, shade-giving orchards in a concrete jungle...
guide.notes 13 | declogging creative metabolism
dear seeker-friends, ~this is guide.notes #13, a weekly newsletter on opening the creative deluge, and building a digital world that nourishes your worldly...
guide.notes 12 | artist child, business adult
dear magical seashell-seeking friends, ~this is guide.notes 12, a weekly email on caring for, and channeling -- your creative spirit/essence/patronus to roam...
a creative life in motion
dear stranger-friends, I'm writing you this artist digest from a sticky summer night in Istanbul. since my last letter, I traveled too much, then hosted /...
guide.notes 11 | hard questions
dear creative friends, this is guide.notes 11; where I nerd out loud on the process of nurturing a soft and true creative life in a capitalist world. * I...
guide.notes 10 | money is magic
dear kindred friends, this is guide.notes #10 -- on the process of nourishing an embodied creative life in the digital world. this email is about money -- as...
guide.notes | solitude & community
dear kindred spirits, this is guide.notes 09 -- on the process of nurturing a creative life. I’ve committed to writing on Thursdays — so you’ll hear from me...
guide.notes | break-ups as rebirth
dear creative friends, hello from guide.notes 08 ~ on the process of nurturing a creative life. this week, I'm sharing a post I wrote specifically for a...
guide.notes | antidotes for overwhelm
dear creative friends, this is guide.notes 07 ~ on the process of nurturing a creative life. this week's letter is a very meta post about feeling overwhelmed...
guide.notes 06 | swimming in the ocean alone
hello creative friends, this is guide.notes #6, on the process of nurturing a creative life. recently: I've been in a life blur of stomach flu, the anxiety...
earthquake country
dear stranger-friends, hello from my first digest of 2023. these days, it's been zombie weather in istanbul -- neither dark nor light, but heavy and grey,...
guide.notes 05 | build your dream house
dear creative friends, hello from my favorite month for building creative things: January of Capricorn season. every year around this time, I get a surge of...
a year of transitions
dear stranger-friends, happy almost new year! in this mysterious window between christmas and new years, I've been watching harry potter, playing stardew...
guide.notes 04 | hello & best of
hello kindred spirits, thank you for signing up for guide.notes, a newsletter about the "how" of growing a creative ecosystem in the digital world. my artist...
journey of three seas
dear stranger-friends, hello from a rainy week in istanbul. this letter is my artistic digest & weather report from the creative life. my last letter was...
loving an animal
dear stranger friends, I write to you eating my last watermelon of the year, thrilled that Istanbul finally feels like fall -- which means that my brain is...
this astronaut life
dear stranger-friend, at the beginning of summer, I returned to istanbul after two weeks in new york, and wrote you a long letter about it -- the stark...
growing a home like a garden
dear stranger-friend, I'm sorry it's been an entire season since my last letter from that snowy day in istanbul. spring has felt sudden, loud, and heavy. I...
hello from istanbul
dear stranger-friends, it's been 2 months (or 2+ years) since I've written most of you. at some point in the last 5 years, you signed up for my letters. I'll...
hello from a snowy istanbul
dear stranger-friends, it's been 2 months (or 2+ years) since I've written most of you. at some point in the last 5 years, you signed up for my letters. I'll...
- 2021 distilled, sleep, and creative circle -
dear stranger-friends, the sun arrived in istanbul today - after days of darkness and wetness - and it feels like i'm slowly emerging from an underwater...
- the time it takes to leave -
dear stranger-friends, I won't lie, I lived most of this last week in tired tornado weather - while it's been rainy and windy on the island - and I try to...
- windy days, wild birds, still lifes -
dear stranger-friends, i am writing to you from a very windy, dark week on this island. i went offline for three days - and it felt like three weeks - and...
hello after so long
dear stranger-friends, I'm sorry it's been so long. at the end of july, I fell into a black hole, and I climbed out just in time to celebrate my 30th...
- the feeling of coming home -
dear stranger friends: today feels like autumn in berlin - my favorite season - and i'm trying not to get too excited about baking rhubarb cakes and...
- love what you can't control -
dear stranger friends: these days, my mind has felt like a minefield, but berlin is beautiful and rainy. anxiety is: living with a bomb in your heart -- or...
- hello darkness, my old friend -
hello again, stranger friends: on friday I woke up in new york and went to sleep in berlin. to be in a time where two worlds can exist in a single day --...
- love is work is love -
hello dear stranger friends, sorry i've been silent for a little while. I've been swallowed into the black hole energy vacuum which is new york city, and...
- mood thermometer -
dear stranger-friends, i'm in harlem. staying with a friend with a thousand plants, and a cat that runs back and forth at night, chasing shadows. i wrote...
april moods & vaccine
dear stranger-friends, it's spring again and I'm in new york city - after 1.3 years away. I didn't write for a few weeks because it was black-hail-storming,...
- new website & more -
dear stranger-friends, today is blazing spring weather in berlin -- and for some reason, it makes me want to run inside. I think it's not the weather; it's...
- art is for dark, love is for light -
hello! sorry I didn't write last week - when I don't write it means I am either (a) incapacitated or (b) on an airplane or (c) feeling uncharacteristically...
- the artist soul is a tree -
dear stranger friends, today was 11 hours of sunshine in berlin, with birdsong all morning. I had too many goji berries for breakfast, called my mother and...
- reborn by haircut -
dear fellow traveler of a winter night, I'm writing to you from a berlin where spring feels nearly here. I went on a two hour walk today and noticed how the...
- we are all enslaved -
dear serpent charmer of my heart, this week i am embracing the tidal way of working -- which is to say, allowing myself to ebb and flow and have tsunami...
- cigarette kisses -
dear kindred voyager of this life, last week was chinese new years, and my grandfather died. my two grandfathers both died in the last four months -- during...
- earth therapy -
dearest stranger-friends of my heart, my word of the week is ritual, so I'm going to start writing to you -- monday nights -- a little more religiously than...