The Long Way Home
A short defence of walking without a purpose, and of arriving later than you needed to.
The journal
Essays
Longer pieces, written and rewritten. Some begin as notes; most take their time becoming anything at all.
The Museum of Small Hours
What we lose when we stop being bored, and what a quiet afternoon can still teach us about attention.
On Keeping a Commonplace Book
A commonplace book is not a journal. It is a workshop for the mind — a place where other people's sentences become raw material.
The Cost of a Quick Look
We have optimised the way we look at the world, and we are beginning to notice what the optimisation removed.
Winter Light, and Other Instruments
On the seasons as instruments of attention, and the particular honesty of a low sun.
Against the Tyranny of the New
A modest defence of the old, the secondhand, and the things that have already survived.
A Room With One Window
On solitude, constraint, and the unexpected freedom of having less to look at.