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- Nothing said “home” to me more than an empty house
Home is about walking what’s real—and not away—or alone. Read more » - How trust emerges naturally from self-awareness—and eating well
Wayfinding and social adventure in Sardinia Read more » - Against Recovery
Recovery still carries a lot of cultural weight, but to me it's a ghost river, pouring dust. Read more » - "We get good at what we do."
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Donna McArthur of The Bright Life Read more » - Learning to ride
The three-mile circuit around the docks where my floating home is tied up takes about an hour. I make my way up to the end of each one and wheel around to the next, sucking in the salt air and the winter light that slants in over the headlands, checking the minus tide, the mud exposed in the flats, listening to the birds out searching for grub, giving each neighbor a nod and a smile… Read more » - “We all need our own philosophy”
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Latham Turner of Get Real, Man on writing to explore, how “adventure doesn’t happen by accident,” writing as men and the transition into being an older man, using research in storytelling, how “we all need our own philosophy,” the challenge of positive confrontation and “the Goat Work,” how we relate to our immediate geography, long-distance walking, wayfinding, personal spirituality, and the gods we’re praying as. Read more » - Acquiring the skills of growth
Change can seem entirely impossible—and, it can be normal, and easy. Read more » - Inspiration from Fall 2023—and a reader survey!
Sophie Strand, Ben McGrath, John and Monica Chapman, Jessica Carew Kraft, Kendra Atleework, Paul Kingsnorth, Stewart Brand, Holly Payne, Bari Weiss, Scott Galloway, Richard V. Reeves, Scott Lyons Read more » - Let’s kill 'content,' and reclaim "growth", OK?
And, this is the house where they're giving out full MFA's Read more » - Salvational or "a series of compulsions"?
Bowen Dwelle in conversation with Sam Kahn of Castalia Read more » - I'm Here To Tell The Truth
An Ordinary Disaster: My entire book-length memoir, serialized as a work in progress right here on Substack Read more » - Staying sane with research notes, citations, end notes, and a real bibliography
Using Scrivener, a good pencil, Zotero, and Obsidian together as a system Read more » - We Need Wild Fathers
We don’t need fathers to keep quiet. We need them to speak up, and to be more themselves than ever. We need them to be caring, but less careful. Read more » - Six Men Writing about Fatherhood
A group exploration of a topic core to every man's experience, whether or not they have children of their own. Read more »
