Art does not reproduce the visible, rather, it makes visible ~ Paul Klee

Just published a short story. It's about endings and new beginnings, and transformation. https://meadow.cafe/blog/sacred-labor/

At what point in editing do you actually stop "improving" a story and instead start changing it? How much editing is too much?

Aether now supports cross-posting to status.cafe! It might not be useful for anyone, but it was fun to implement https://aether.meadow.cafe

I don't know why but I've always had a bias against PHP even though I've never used it. But it can't be worse than Javascript, can it?

man, I love playing with my son but sometimes my brain just feels fried after a couple of minutes

Just realized that most people's experience of public speaking is limited to standing in front of a classroom and be judged

My dog woke me up at 5am today. Perfect chance to watch the sunrise with a nice cup of matcha

Your "good" ideas aren't being saved for later, they're being saved for never. Don't hoard ideas, use them instead!

Sporadic poem this morning about blogging, community and the walls we build around ourselves https://meadow.cafe/blog/a-fortress-called-blog

(As an excuse to learn Django) I made a silly site that allows you to throw thoughts into the void https://aether.meadow.cafe/

Feeling a bit sick today

Unexpected wisdom from Zhuangzi: happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

I don't know why, but I feel the fact that the author of Winnie-the-Pooh was allegedly not a very present father is one of the sadest things

New post! Got there just in time to rescue a blackbird from my dog https://meadow.cafe/blog/rescuing-a-blackbird/

After a while in the supermarket I always feel like my soul has been sucked dry. Blood, marrow, and bone.

Why does AI always wants to make my writing sound like business documents? I should know better by now than to ask it to review my posts

I'm thinking of closing my Mastodon instance as I haven't used it in a while. My needs are met by status.cafe!

New post! Why do we find it so difficult to be in the here and now? https://meadow.cafe/blog/take-care-not-to-tread-on-those-apples/

My wife and kids have been sick for the past week now and I thought I had miraculously escaped it. Well, today I was proved wrong.