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Departure In Place

We are living through the collapse of the systems that shaped us. Many of us, by circumstance or still by choice, remain inside the old economy even as it crumbles — here, where the seeds of something new are already stirring. This is a blog about rooting ourselves, tending to what matters, and quietly beginning the work of living differently in the cracks as they start to open up.

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Learning to Need Each Other

The family argument There is something that, once you see it, is hard to unsee: every major political argument of the last two centuries has been a disagreement about who should run the machine. Almost nobody in mainstream politics argues about the machine itself. Free-market capitalism says the market should

Learning to Need Each Other
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Departure In Place: An outline for a wildly ambitious book

I’ve been circling this book for a long time without quite realising it. It’s about collapse—yes—but not as apocalypse, not as spectacle, not even as a single event. Collapse here is understood as a long, uneven unravelling of systems that were never built to last, and

Marin County, California. A series of electric pylons receding across a marsh at dusk. A flock of birds taking flight over the distant hills.