Field notes from inside the work.
Pieces on the part of being human that gets buried under prescriptions and product reviews. Held tensions instead of clean verdicts. Hand on the shoulder, ground under the feet, no authority claims. Take what's useful. Leave what isn't.
The itch on the back you can't quite reach.
The body has a vocabulary. The mind has a different one. Most of what we call wanting is the second one mistranslating the first. A piece on the design of being a creature with hands that cannot quite reach itself — and what the reach is actually pointing at.
What "the real ones" means, and why it matters.
Most of what's sold as a healing crystal is a polished rock from a wholesale catalog. Most tuning forks aren't tuned to anything. Here is what "real" turns out to mean when you stop expecting magic and start asking specifics. The almost is the trap.
Can an AI actually do tarot? Both. Always both.
The skeptic says no. The practitioner says yes. Both halves are true, and the both is what stays alive in this piece. A held tension instead of a verdict — and what it means for the tools we're building.
The buried canon: twelve books the modern world stopped reading.
Not the bestsellers. The ones the bestsellers were quietly built on top of. A reading list for people who already read the obvious stuff and noticed it didn't quite reach.
New field notes Mondays and Thursdays. The work is slow. The work is steady.