What this is
This is a space for writing on aesthetics and culture—both experienced and perceived—along with personal history, reflections on self-discovery, and essays on how these intersecting ideas can enhance everyday life. If this is not for you, that's totally fine, but please at least forward it to your nemesis.
Time and place
Los Angeles, CA. 2025. A metropolis. A beachfront plot. Despite its challenges, LA remains a major entertainment hub and cultural nerve center of our modern world. For better or worse—175-ish years and counting. Sure, New York City has Broadway and looks better on film, Austin boasts a comedy boom, and other cities (Lawrence, KS will do for now) surely have vibrant arts districts and cultural energy. Yet still, all the stars and silver screen activity mostly maps back here to LA. For this reason, Los Angeles remains a sort of locus imperfectus of cultural creation. As the great Arthur Ashe put it, “Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.”
What you’ll get
This newsletter is where I’ll share writings about aesthetics, culture, and how these ideas shape the quality of the day. I’m setting out to create this collection of essays as a public exercise—through retellings of aesthetic experiences, personal history, and long-form cultural critique, I hope to engage more closely with each of you (and the collective thou), and shine a light on areas of the creative sphere, perception, spirituality, and more. Through research, careful editorial processes, and diving into the works of people much smarter than I am, I hope to pass along something of value to you. In the words of Lewis Hyde, "The gift must stay in motion.”
Format
Though this project is freeform in terms of the subjects I cover, each essay will be researched and edited by a professional for your reading pleasure. By following this process, I’ll ensure that I’m getting 1% better and more in tune with what my readers find valuable in each and every dispatch. What you receive here may range from traditional essays, aesthetic missives, and diary entries, to something completely different.
What I ask of you
Thank you for gifting me an opportunity to share my crafted thoughts with you here and I look forward to starting a conversation together. If this work resonates with you, please consider subscribing. If you know someone who’d dig it, forwarding any essays is much appreciated. And if you want to support this work on a deeper level, consider joining as a paid subscriber—your support keeps the writing in motion like creativity kerosene on a dancing open flame.
