What the Walls of Pompeii Remember
Love notes, insults, complaints, and campaign slogans scratched into Pompeii's walls reveal ordinary lives and feelings that still seem familiar.
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October
What the Walls of Pompeii Remember
Love notes, insults, complaints, and campaign slogans scratched into Pompeii's walls reveal ordinary lives and feelings that still seem familiar.
The Seasons We Carry Within Us
Like the changing seasons, our lives move through loss, uncertainty, and renewal. Yet every new beginning carries something of what came before.
August
The Wooden Horse and the Burden We Carry: Knowing or Becoming?
Rumi imagined a child carrying the stick he believes is carrying him. Read alongside Socrates and Spinoza, it becomes a question about all of us.
Escaping the Pixelated Cave: Why Plato's Allegory Still Matters
Plato imagined prisoners who mistook shadows for reality. Twenty-four centuries later, the shadows are algorithmic — and the harder question is whether we are outside the cave at all.
Chasing an Idea: The Morning Surprises of My Own Creation
A personal essay on the quiet joy of waking up to something I built myself — and how a side project became a small, satisfying part of my daily routine.
July
Why Read Three Articles a Day?
A short essay on why small, consistent reading habits matter more than ambitious goals, and why three thoughtful articles every morning can be enough.
We Didn't Stop Reading. We Stopped Choosing What to Read.
A short essay on fragmented attention, the loss of reading habits, and why finding a few good articles has become harder than reading them.
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