Small Against the Stone
I spent an hour this morning trying to fix a loose shelf in my kitchen. I kept looking at the wall, feeling frustrated by how crooked the brackets were and how small my tools looked against the expanse of the plaster. It’s funny how we spend…
Standing Before Giants
I spent this morning trying to organize my bookshelf, pulling down volumes I haven't touched in years. I found a notebook from a decade ago, filled with worries about things that feel so small now. It is strange how we spend so much of our…
The Architecture of Exhaustion
We often mistake the skyline for a neutral backdrop, a mere canvas for the setting sun. But the horizon is never neutral; it is a ledger of our priorities. When we look at the silhouette of a city, we are reading a history of extraction and…