Outside The World

Recurring evidence

Threads through
the mess.

These are not departments. They are paths the archive kept making whether anyone organized them or not.

01

Arizona and the desert

Weather, streets, heat, mountains, monsoon light, and the state that keeps getting into the work.
Sonoran VitalitySummer rain with a desert address.The state needs a bathPhoenix air awaiting a monsoon-sized correction.In TucsonOlder geography, recovered intact enough.

02

Technology and the machines around us

Apple, web systems, old hardware, newer dependencies, and the occasional device with too much emotional leverage.
The MacBook Neo makes an awful lot of senseA machine considered on its own strange terms.50 Best Apple ProductsA list with history, preference, and the usual unnecessary confidence.A Brand New OTW, babyThe site notices itself changing again.

03

Faith, doubt, and Latter-day Saint thought

Not a doctrinal department. A recurring argument with belief, authority, mercy, anger, and belonging.
The Crucible of Continuous RevelationFaith asked to sit inside unresolved tension.Religion fills me with anger. God does not.The distinction is doing considerable work.Different Mercies of the Same LightAnother angle on belief and the people carrying it.

04

Poetry, including the embarrassing stuff

The current Drift and the recovered verse archive. Some lines survived because no one stopped them.
The DriftNewer poems still moving.Verse ArchiveRecovered poems and earlier weather.Outside The WorldThe phrase beneath the entire site.

05

Photography and daily interruption

Pictures that mattered enough to keep, including the ones that briefly took over the front page.
Image of the DayThe living image run.CELLULAR_SUNSETI’m pretty lucky.TURBULENT_SKIESShaping up to be an active monsoon season, for sure.TIMELESSUndoubtedly, this will age like fine wine.