Good Air
I think people underestimate the significance of the smell one finds upon stepping off the plane in a new place. Bali smelled like papaya. Ireland smelled green. Tanzania smelled like...
View ArticleBuddhism in Español
I don’t have the best track record with languages. Starting with French at the age of 5, I somehow managed to hop-scotch my way through Spanish, German and Latin by the time I graduated high school. No...
View ArticleEvening.
I’ve heard it called the blue hour of the day – that time when the earth’s colors soften, when fog spreads out across the lake, crickets take up their chorus and car headlights flood the winding...
View ArticleDuende and the power of gnomes
Once upon a time, a professor walked into the first day of a creative-writing seminar and said “I am here to f*** you up.” Di Suess didn’t appear to be joking when she said this and as our class...
View ArticleTierra del Fuego
HOOOONK!!! A cacophony of horns, whistles, drums and bellows echo beepbeep throughout the small city of Ushuaia. Argentina has just won their semi-final game against the Netherlands to THUMthumthumthum...
View ArticleMeditations on El Calafate
Sitting beside a monstrosity, befriending a beast that bellows and cracks, a rhythm with stops and starts and silences. The face aches with infinite blue, with star-time encapsuled, seasons trapped. A...
View ArticleThe rainbows of Iguazú
Meditations pt. II Water on water on water Streams and ripples and splashes and thunder. An incessant, unstoppable weight of all things carried, all things washed away. The strength of fluidity put...
View ArticleBook club with Tatterhood
We’re all a little weird here. It’s just the truth, the way of the whims. However beautifully profound the world can be in any given moment, I assure you that there is an equally awkward, wackstastic,...
View ArticleDirection
WhhhzzzzzZZZZzzzzwwWHww Geez, did you see that? Something has just gone careening past your face, nearly swiping the tip of your nose. And did you hear it? Was it a boomerang, whipping circles through...
View ArticleChanges and gratitude.
Hey! You! (Yes, you) How are you? Where are you? Maybe this is your first time on Tatterhood. Maybe you’ve been reading from the very beginning. Whatever the case, I just wanted to take the time to say...
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