The gentle art of sanity amidst civilization
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I always wanted to be Indiana Jones. I was the only nine-year-old on the block with a fedora and a genuine bullwhip. I watched the movies all the time. I couldn’t get enough ancient tombs and hidden doors and mine-cart chases. That was the appeal for me, the action. It wasn’t until I grew up [...]
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Six years ago, when I lived in a snowy mountain village and paid my bills by cleaning high-end sinks and toilets, someone said something that prompted me to confront an uncomfortable truth about myself.
A well-meaning coworker mentioned that she had been talking to another housekeeper about me. Oh?
“She said, ‘David is a such great guy [...]
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“Hell is other people.”
~Sartre
Whether it’s the rude throng of last-minute Christmas shoppers, or the drunken fratboys slithering up to you at a concert, or the old man in the restaurant booth behind you who clears his decrepit throat every forty seconds, everyone finds themselves feeling a general aversion to people now and then. For [...]
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Recently I was surfing an online forum, and I came across something that almost made me cry. Somebody had dug up an old, old post of mine and replied to it. Sometimes new users on a forum don’t look at the date on a old post, and they respond to it as if [...]
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Follow David on his year-long solo trip to Thailand and New Zealand, on the new blog David Goes Kiwi. Many stories, photos and adventures await.