# Andy Patrick — RSS Amplifier

Everything Andy Patrick publishes, via the RSS Amplifier directory.

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## [Perfect Days](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/perfect-days)

_2026-08-12 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

I took the train to Ventura for a meeting.

## [What Sticks](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/what-sticks)

_2026-07-20 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

The Compost Guy

## [Outer Space](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/outer-space)

_2026-07-17 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

Inner Space

## [Slower](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/slower)

_2026-06-27 · the distance between dates_

The cardinal is the state bird of Ohio.

## [The Untraceable](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-untraceable)

_2026-05-29 · the distance between dates_

Edward Lorenz did not set out to write a parable.

## [The Portal](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-portal)

_2026-05-24 · the distance between dates_

On my way home tonight I stopped.

## [Outside the Timetable](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/outside-the-timetable)

_2026-05-23 · the distance between dates_

She sits on the bench nearest the public bathrooms, and she is there every day.

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_2026-05-23 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Paul Fusco's Chernobyl Legacy](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/tonight-chernobyl-and-paul)

_2026-05-20 · the distance between dates_

CNN started their series on the Chernobyl disaster.

## [The Back of America](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/the-back-of-america)

_2026-05-05 · the distance between dates_

Part One of Four

## [Who Will We Be](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/who-will-we-be)

_2026-04-18 · the distance between dates_

The sourdough was still warm.

## [Consecrated](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/consecrated)

_2026-04-16 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

Paul John Dear wrote this, in response to yesterday’s piece on flow:

## [Flow](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/flow)

_2026-04-06 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

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 · the distance between dates_

In August of 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson stood in the Concord, Massachusetts courthouse and said what the legislators would not.

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_2026-04-05 · **Sponsored**_

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## [Through a Small Opening](https://andypatrick.substack.com/p/through-a-small-opening)

_2026-04-04 · the distance between dates_

There is a difference between darkness and obscurity.