Archive - Letters to Z

tears on the bus

although you are of me, you are not mine. I am here to help you make it to adulthood in a good way (and alive!), and to support you as far as I am able…

Apr 19

March 2024

the spring and the river

just another moment

Mar 18

February 2024

on your second birthday

notes from the edge

Feb 7

January 2024

dozens of phone numbers by heart

I am a standard-issue homo sapien, with a brain that has a memory bank and a capacity for attention that eclipses every other known being that has ever…

Jan 7

December 2023

Calling All Men! (part one)

The question is, can you be okay with you—a true mensch—while that which has given you status and meaning in a changing world begins to crumble?

Dec 6, 2023

Dec 5, 2023

October 2023

there is much and there will be more before it’s all over

immerse yourself in the splendour and the suffering and everything between for as long as it takes to live a life of service and love and ritual, and…

Oct 12, 2023

September 2023

may you be able to hold the suffering of others

When we witness others in pain, we make a choice: we open, or close.

Sep 1, 2023

August 2023

and other quandaries

Aug 1, 2023

June 2023

on optimism, on land.

Dear Z., The optimist in me has a nagging suspicion that the pace at which the world is changing will antiquate most of what I say in these letters to…

Jun 30, 2023

May 2023

on sacred objects lost

it's all just gratitude and grief

May 11, 2023

April 2023

musings on work and money and flow

to give and receive in balance

Apr 5, 2023

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