I left the CDT near the Colorado/New Mexico border and headed into Chama. Tired of the constant wind that felt like hungry ghosts demanding to be acknowledged. Worn out from what that does to my nervous system. I not-so-stealth camped in front of the senior center in the middle of town, long past the point […]
I’d walked away from myself just as much as I’d walked away from society. After a month of silence, alone in the mountains, it was time to mingle with the other apes. I travelled south, from Breckenridge to Fairplay and beyond by connecting local buses, to end up stealth camping in Salida. Then hitchhiking from […]
I have been blessed with multiple families. Family is the only reason I exist between trails. The Arizona crew on the homestead. The Attleboro/Pawtucket people. And my Chinese family, who just closed the restaurant that brought me back to New England one last time. The restaurant opened the year I was born. It’s the place […]
I owe a quiet apology to the many people who reached out over the past year and never heard back from me. I’ve been trying to write this post since December, but every time my body would shut down before I could find the words. So if you wrote to me and I disappeared, please […]
It started raining the way fatigue creeps in, soft at first, then relentless. The fog thickened on the ridge, swallowing my headlamp beam into a haze as dense as milk. Each white blaze looked like a ghost ahead of me, urging me up toward Campbell Shelter. Thunder rolled somewhere over Catawba Valley, low and guttural, […]
The latest crypto sell-off wasn’t really about macro conditions or a shift in conviction. It was a leverage unwind. More than $19.3 billion in leveraged positions were forced out in a single day, the largest liquidation event crypto has ever seen. Open interest dropped from $140B to about $70B, which is a full reset of […]
It had been raining for days. The kind of rain that sits on your skin like an old friend. Someone I missed during my long Mexican retreat. Everyone in the house was sick, curled under blankets and breathing through their mouths, and I found myself in a chair that had lost its shape, watching water […]
Volatility as Structure: Pairing With Forgotten Meme Tokens There’s a particular kind of silence that settles over an abandoned token. No announcements. No trades. No interest. But if its issuing account is locked and its liquidity pool still holds XLM, that token doesn’t die. It becomes dormant. A sealed container of asymmetric value waiting to […]
The fluorescent lights hum their familiar tune above me, a soft electrical lullaby that never changes pitch or rhythm. I’ve heard this sound for so long now that silence would feel like deafness. The examination paper crackles as I smooth it across the table, each wrinkle a small protest against order. Then I hear them, […]
The morning light fell through the kitchen window at the same angle it always had, but something had shifted. Where Lydia usually sat with her coffee and laptop, scrolling through emails while steam rose from her mug, there was only the wooden chair and the square of sunlight it occupied. The light seemed louder somehow, […]