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#72 👓 FAILURE, plus the opening and closing of a home 🚪

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The interstitial, life-and-death dramas of an open home * Practical: Failure is an option * Read: Framed, even more thoroughly than before * Art: Snails, mutations, immaculate poise From the journal 📖 We’re selling our house, which is a stressful form of theatre. It’s not just the pressure of

Richard Allardice May 15, 2023

#71 🛻 DRIVE on through to the other side 🎾

In brief 🩲 * Journal: The ugliest faded tennis ball of a car you can imagine * Read: Never build the Homer car * Practical: Procrastination is a beast * Art: Psychedelic tick-tock-apocalypse From the journal 📖 We did it. We brought the ugliest car in the world: the 2016 Toyota Sienta. Now, to be fair:

Richard Allardice Apr 21, 2023

#70 🌱 The sacredness of SECONDS 💣

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Tiny shoots can conquer concrete, with time * Practical: The timer is sacred * Read: I need to send you a message – where the heck are you? * Art: When landscape fails you, go full portrait From the journal 📖 While hitchhiking through Hokkaidō fifteen years ago, I came across a

Richard Allardice Apr 5, 2023

#69 🥱 The exhaustion of our METAPHORS 🕰

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Whichever way those old clocks tick * Listen: The grim new initialism on the block * Practical: I never met a metaphor like this before * Art: Coming full circle to “literal is best” * Update: This is Sparta From the journal 📖 We’ve reached that moment that I figured would

Richard Allardice Mar 19, 2023

#68 🏕 Make a break for the OUTSIDE wild 🧳

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Slowly making a break for it * Practical: Delisting your inbox * Listen: Charging into the outside wild with naught but a whim From the journal 📖 I nearly fell backwards avoiding a snail making a break for it across our wooden floorboards. It was early evening and the light

Richard Allardice Mar 5, 2023

#67 🧱 Brick by brick, over TIME 🏗

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Stretched to the limit * Practical: The shape of the task at hand * Read: Effortless production from bed From the journal 📖 Our high school hockey coach, whom we called “Hang”, used to measure and log how far past our toes we could reach from a sitting position. Hang

Richard Allardice Feb 8, 2023

#66 🗺 Point it out to me on the MAP 🌋

In brief 🩲 * Journal: Volcanoes are safe, honest * Practical: Create a map, testudo your time * Read: Catalogues of LOLs return From the journal 📖 Omid is a 6 foot 4 Iranian man with well-groomed hair who kicks the standing bag at our taekwondo gym so hard it tumbles away end over end

Richard Allardice Jan 23, 2023

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