Vol 2.1

Any one of us, faced with the comparative achievements and status symbols of the upper classes, can be overcome by a sense of envy and the unfairness of the world. There is always someone richer and more entitled who seems to have it all figured out.

If one knows how to read the stars, they can “project backwards and forwards in time,” reading the future and past as one. It was only natural that we would give this prophetic territory to the gods, oracles, and fates.

This incessant, near compulsory recycling of the Midwestern flight narrative makes one thing clear: the story, the real story, begins upon departure. 

If nuclear advocates are incapable of discussing who their chosen fuel sources have harmed and might harm, they are either ill-informed and not the experts they claim to be, or they are dishonest.

Wright’s architectural vision was a manifest destiny of the self, a frontier for every household, a westward expansion outside every door.

The opportunities my personal tragedies presented to me calcified around the time I emerged from Cornell with a degree and the minor acclaim I received as an undergraduate.