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Wild Divinity Illustrated Haiku

Wild Divinity Illustrated Haiku

Find the miraculous in the ordinary, a beautiful collection of over 100 haiku comics to help you rediscover you sense of wonder.

2023

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A Disciple of the Sea

A haiku comic memoir

4 min readFeb 9, 2024

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The Taoist Online

How to Pay Attention

The core of mindfulness is not breathwork — it’s noticing what you notice

6 min readFeb 13, 2024

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The Problem of Time

How art transcends the tyranny of time

2 min readJan 8, 2024

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The Greatest First Line in American Literature?

The opening line of Mark Twain’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is a world-building masterpiece.

5 min readJan 15, 2024

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The Accidental Fire That Sparked a Deliberate Life

A story about Henry David Thoreau that history has forgotten

5 min readSep 21, 2022

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Are Humans Hardwired for Story or Do We Just Like Gossip?

A different way to look at the human need for stories

3 min readMar 31, 2024

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Are Humans Hardwired for Story or Do We Just Like Gossip?

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How Useless Knowledge Allows Me to Connect to Strangers as a Lifelong Introvert

The beauty of useless knowledge, or how I became a birdman

5 min readMar 28, 2024

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How Useless Knowledge Allows Me to Connect to Strangers as a Lifelong Introvert

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Irrelevant Matters

If You Want to Improve Your Creative Life Be Like a Sea Turtle

You’re only struggling because you haven’t found your element yet

3 min readMar 14, 2024

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If You Want to Improve Your Creative Life Be Like a Sea Turtle

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Contemplating Eternity

Or a love letter to my beloved Willamette Valley

3 min readMar 13, 2024

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Contemplating Eternity

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ILLUMINATION

Flipping Through Poems Like the Pages of a Magazine

How one book got me hooked on poetry

7 min readMar 11, 2024

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Flipping Through Poems Like the Pages of a Magazine

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Freelance Writer & Illustrator | Poet & Visual Essayist | Amateur Human | he/him https://weirdopoetry.com/newsletter/

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