# the distance between dates essays, conversations, and field notes on time, witness, and attention Page: Feed: --- ## [Perfect Days](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/perfect-days) _2026-08-12 · Andy Patrick_ In an ode to Wim Wenders, this morning I woke, checking myself in as safe and relatively healthy. ## [The Train I Missed On Purpose](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-train-i-missed-on-purpose) _2026-07-20 · Andy Patrick_ I took the train to Ventura for a meeting. ## [What Sticks](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/what-sticks) _2026-07-20 · Andy Patrick_ For the last three days, I have written about Inner Space, Outer Space, and What Is Cast Off. ## [What Is Cast Off](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/what-is-cast-off) _2026-07-18 · Andy Patrick_ The Compost Guy ## [Outer Space](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/outer-space) _2026-07-17 · Andy Patrick_ There are ten structures here, more or less, shacks and sheds and small buildings on less than an acre in the middle of town. ## [Inner Space](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/inner-space) _2026-07-16 · Andy Patrick_ Inner Space ## [Slower](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/slower) _2026-06-27 · Andy Patrick_ The cardinal is the state bird of Ohio. ## [The Untraceable](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-untraceable) _2026-05-29 · Andy Patrick_ Edward Lorenz did not set out to write a parable. ## [The Portal](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-portal) _2026-05-24 · Andy Patrick_ On my way home tonight I stopped. ## [Outside the Timetable](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/outside-the-timetable) _2026-05-23 · Andy Patrick_ She sits on the bench nearest the public bathrooms, and she is there every day. ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YirfQF8eotuB) _2026-05-23 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [Paul Fusco's Chernobyl Legacy](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/tonight-chernobyl-and-paul) _2026-05-20 · Andy Patrick_ CNN started their series on the Chernobyl disaster. ## [The Back of America](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-back-of-america) _2026-05-05 · Andy Patrick_ Part One of Four ## [Who Will We Be](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/who-will-we-be) _2026-04-18 · Andy Patrick_ The sourdough was still warm. ## [Consecrated](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/consecrated) _2026-04-16 · Andy Patrick_ There is a photograph Marcela Taboada made inside the Discalced Carmelite convent in Puebla, Mexico. ## [The Seed the Swallow Carried](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-seed-the-swallow-carried) _2026-04-08 · Andy Patrick_ The Carpinteria salt marsh sits at the edge of the Pacific, a remnant of what this coastline once was, full of cordgrass and pickleweed, tidal channels cutting through mud flats, the air dense with salt and the particular smell of things decomposing into fertility. ## [The Storm’s Own Logic](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-storms-own-logic) _2026-04-07 · Andy Patrick_ Paul John Dear wrote this, in response to yesterday’s piece on flow: ## [Flow](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/flow) _2026-04-06 · Andy Patrick_ I have been photographing pelicans for years, and I have learned one thing the fast shutter cannot teach: a pelican in flow is barely distinguishable from the wave it rides. ## [Where I Stand](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/where-i-stand) _2026-04-05 · Andy Patrick_ The sand was wet from the tide and the sun was low enough that its reflection ran straight toward me across the beach, a second light on the water-darkened ground. ## [Sitting Dumb at Their Desks](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/sitting-dumb-at-their-desks) _2026-04-05 · Andy Patrick_ In August of 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson stood in the Concord, Massachusetts courthouse and said what the legislators would not. ## [Refer a Friend, Earn Rewards (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/KH9yGxlSLF6P) _2026-04-05 · **Sponsored**_ Earn rewards when a friend signs up for the Graphite Business Card ## [Through a Small Opening](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/through-a-small-opening) _2026-04-04 · Andy Patrick_ There is a difference between darkness and obscurity.