Raked sand bunker with concentric circles, a visual metaphor for attention and focus.

Pay Attention

In German you gift attention. In Arabic it means waking up. In English, you pay it. What that says about how we think.

Audit of Me: A December Reflection on Time, Attention, and Patterns

I tried to fit a year into seven kilos and failed in interesting ways. What followed was a quiet audit of time, attention, and the small patterns that shape our days.

The Leisure We Forgot

We thought it was a dead insect. It turned out to be something else entirely. A small discovery in a Dallas garden, a line read at 35,000 feet, and a reminder that leisure has very little to do with free time.
Solitary bird on a weathered post by San Francisco Bay with fog. A quiet checklist in sight.

Not a Travelogue. A Checklist.

Attention

Many who came in search of music have settled for non stop noise. Worse, we contribute to it too.