Standing at a Window: A Year of Practice

The rules are simple: Each morning, I stand at a window and write. Later that day, I tell you about it in this newsletter. Every day, for a year.

This newsletter project combines my life-long interests in physical discipline and performance with my pursuits in writing, art and personal growth. I wanted a way to connect with you that is both immediate and intimate as well as a way to write to you without overplanning and overthinking. I gravitate towards writing about fatherhood, grief, trauma, healing, creative inspiration, my athletic career, but the point is to start anew each day—to draw up the blinds and look. The point is to relax my compulsion to control and let the daily discipline become a force in itself—to lean into the unknowns and make an end run around my own dogged predictability.

I want to bring the body to the ritual of daily creative practice, to the windows that face outward to the world and inward to the soul, and move my hand in response to what I see and what shows itself to me.

John Muir once said that when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe. 

I pick this window, this window of many panes

I invite you to join me. Pick a window of your own at which to hitch yourself, or come up with your own daily creative practice. Start small: commit to a month, a week, even a few days. See what happens.

The project commences on June 20, 2024 and will conclude on June 20, 2025.

For free subscribers

• All public posts.

• Announcements, event information, updates on classes.

For paid subscribers

• A one-to-one Zoom session to chat about whatever you like.

• Other special things still in the process of becoming. :)