Lifestyle
The first hour belongs to no one
No phone, no news, no plan: a cup of coffee and the light moving across the table. What happened when I kept one hour a day for nothing at all.
Topic ยท 10 stories
Journal
Notes from a slower life, one entry at a time.
Stories
MakingVisual stories
Learning to throw a bowl, and to fail a hundred times
Clay forgives nothing and remembers everything. Six months at the wheel taught me more about patience than any book.
Reading
A bookshop that closes when the owner feels like it
Opening hours are a suggestion. The recommendations are not.
TravelNorwayVisual stories
The slow train to the fjords
Seven hours, four changes, one thermos. Why the long way is still the right way.
Ideas
Boredom is where the good ideas wait
We have learned to fill every empty minute. We may have lost something important in the process.
Visual storiesNorway
Fog, a field guide
Advection, radiation, valley fog: a short guide to the weather that makes forests look like memories.
Visual storiesTravel
Doorways to the sea
Old arches, harbour gates and windows in fortress walls: a small collection of frames for the horizon.
PlacesVisual stories
A cabin, a lake and no signal
Four days with a woodstove, a rowing boat and absolutely no way to check anything.