Going Alone

I remember when I first thought up the idea of Going Alone. My family and I were living then in Japan, and I was making YouTube videos...

I was never very afraid of the dark, or the things which come out after the sun goes down, to wander, and slither, and creep, and fly...

"...and the very slope of the hill on which my house is placed, seemed to say, Forward!" -Henry David Thoreau I accept life as hard. I...

I began my life as a young adult finding things along the way. I went out from the circumstance I knew into life which was not yet mine,...

Before I was alive I'm pretty sure I simply did not exist. Oh sure, the stuff of which I am made was around, and the energy which courses...

Emily has produced another drawing for the book. This is an image of The Path of Wildness, which begins and ends nowhere, and is the...

The Great Indifference exists wherever we are not distracted by ourselves. It is the substance of the universe that isn't—not empty...

The Path of Wildness is easy to find... It is the course of a stream, and a beast's track through the woods; leaves blown in the wind,...

I encountered this desert wildfire two weeks back while en route to Siberia ghost town. The fire was moving fast across the desert scrub,...

This is my May, 2020 book reading of Going Alone. For this month, I chose to read select portions of the chapter titled The Anxiety Hike,...

An impressive thing about deserts is the honesty they demand of our age, our health, and our constitution. The desert will not...

Sometimes the best benefit of change is what we lose rather than what we gain.

November 23 2019 Dear Eric, The very first principle I identified for The Good Life is something call The Path of Wildness. I happened...

October 31, 2019 Dear Eric, It's a neat trick to neither lament nor attempt to remember the lives we did not live. For we all walk...

October 20, 2019 Dear Eric, I've an opportunity to exercise what is perhaps my earliest principle - The Path of Wildness: The Path of...

October 15, 2019 Dear Yumiko, Without costumes, and two weeks too soon, we haunted together yesterday the scene and setting of one of our...

October 14, 2019 Dear Eric, What did you wonder over as you walked quietly to your death? I like to imagine you thought of the egg-laying...

October 11, 2019 Dear Eric, I think we all desire to do well. And by this I mean to not just get by, but to complete our work to the...

October 9, 2019 Dear Eric, My home was found at last with a school and way called Stoic. You never knew this journey, I think. We both...

October 8, 2019 Dear Eric, And what of the fearful things of this world...? You knew some of these, and yet you fell at the first major...