Rewriting the American myth.
(August-September 2024. This is the place to start if you want to understand my life s work in a succinct way. It is half the length of the original full GAN Project explainer piece, making this one much more accessible for a general audience. I focus on the essentials. Perfect mix of thoroughness and briefness.) ~ Continue reading The Great American Novel Project, Explained
(August-September 2024. This is the original version of my attempt to comprehensively summarize the core ideas of my Great American Novel Project, which I have pretty much dedicated my life to for these last seven years (and will probably continue for the next 17.) If you want to understand me and my writing, this would Continue reading The Great American Novel Project, Explained (The Long…
(July-September 2024.) This is the introductory post for a series of writings on my 5 week adventure hitchhiking around the Big Island of Hawai’i in April and May 2024. The Hawai’i Notebooks will feature a few short notebook entries, like ‘Some Mornings,’ and many longer adventure stories about some of my best experiences on the Continue reading The Hawai i Notebooks: Introduction
(March 2024. Joshua Tree BLM Lakebed.) The Stars When you live in a school bus, you learn to love living with the stars. Perfect stars every clear night quickly become family. Whenever I look up and see the familiar faces of the northern constellations around me, my soul recalibrates its relativity— and I’m home. I Continue reading The Stars
(February 2024. Mojave Desert. Beautiful two-page essay on the essence of America rediscovering America s youth. This will form the new intro to Refind, Refine, Redefine, Refound America (https://beatinpaths.com/2023/04/30/refind-refine-redefine-refound-america/), written in Fall 22 Spring 23. Stands wonderfully on its own.) Make America Young Again Once, America was a child, a new story which…
(December 2023. I spent a lot of November-January beat in New York driving the Red Bus with Josh. Fell more in love with the city in this period than ever before. The energy! The people! The buildings! NEW YORK! I think this poem captures it quite well. My favorite lines unto themselves are the two Continue reading nyc
(September 2023. Stopped at a lovely little spot for the day while waterfall hunting in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest, which has a truly stunning amount of waterfalls. Sat on a log surrounded by the roaring falls, and wrote this all in one perfect go in my brown notebook, taking up exactly one page. Peak Continue reading McClellan Falls, WA
(September 2023. Collaborative poem by Emma and I at Elkenmist, where she stayed with Waldo and Lucy for a week while I was at Burning Man. We explored around the beautiful lush PNW property of Elkenmist and wrote this poem for Ioan, who was kind enough to host us. Elkenmist is a beautiful land which Continue reading Elkenmist
(September 2023. Burning Man 2023. The infamous Muddy Man. I got a lucky last-minute free ticket from my friends Mac Kat from Austin in exchange for helping them drive their RV from Austin to Black Rock City. Emma stayed in my bus with Waldo for the week in Washington at Elkenmist. We got to Continue reading The Mercy of Becoming
(August 2023. At the Umpqua Hot Springs, one of my favorite places in the world, with Emma. Sun goes down and we have the place to ourselves. Wrote this poem with my feet dangling in the hot water. I had just started getting into e.e. cummings; this can properly be seen as my first cummings-pilled Continue reading The whole in the ground