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Still Rolling OutdoorsSep 3, 2026

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BLAG Magazine: Adventures in Sign PaintingSep 3, 2026

Field Notes from BLAG: September 2026

Eat Carnation Mush, sign painting in Vietnam, the stories of colours, and more from the field.

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soulcruzer

soulcruzerAug 29, 2026

On the drive down to Bristol this morning, …

On the drive down to Bristol this morning, I was listening to a 90's mix. Two tunes caught my attention, One Headlight by The Wallflowers and Public Enemy's He Got Game featuring Stephen Stills. I'll deal with He Got Game in another post. Here's the Wallflower line that poked me in the eye: “Man, I...

ChangeField Notes

Xander BeattieAug 29, 2026

held in this shifting present

Capturing Kruger's cloudscapes.

Low Velocity

Low VelocityAug 22, 2026

For a region that has spent decades planning for more people, more homes, more students, and more growth, schools may be the first reminder that the next few decades could require a very different set of skills.

Field NotesUrbanism

soulcruzer

soulcruzerAug 19, 2026

I think I just clocked the true nature …

I think I just clocked the true nature of gratitude. The thought came to me on the drive into Leamington Spa while I was listening to Conversations with God. I was thinking about prayer, and about the strange contradiction buried inside supplication. When I pray for something, there is often another sentence hiding beneath the...

FaithField Notes

soulcruzer

soulcruzerAug 18, 2026

I started reading Thee Psychick Bible this morning. …

I started reading Thee Psychick Bible this morning. It is a strange beast. The book gathers the writings of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Thee Temple ov Psychick Youth, the experimental network known as TOPY. It moves between occult manual, countercultural manifesto, memoir and the paper trail left by a community trying to find out whether...

Field Noteshabits

Low Velocity

Low VelocityAug 16, 2026

Celebrating in Kauai

A milestone birthday, a hurricane.

Field Notesphotography

All Things LinguisticAug 14, 2026

Here’s your back-to-school list of resources for nerding out about linguistics, whether you’re…

lingthusiasmLingthusiasm’s 100th episodiversary

soulcruzer

soulcruzerAug 14, 2026

This morning I am sitting in Bonnie, our …

This morning I am sitting in Bonnie, our caravan, with a cup of coffee and Dorothy Wordsworth’s The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals open in front of me. We are in a field near Ashbourne on our first trip away in her. Dorothy is writing about walks, weather, meals, visitors, William, and the small movements of...

AttentionDorothy Wordsworth

Still Rolling OutdoorsAug 12, 2026

Something I Never Needed To

Inner TrailcraftField Notes

Still Rolling OutdoorsAug 9, 2026

Hold On Loosely

Still Rolling OutdoorsAug 8, 2026

Brothers, Sisters

Low Velocity

Low VelocityAug 6, 2026

Roger Tofte thought Enchanted Forest would take two years to build. It took seven. His coworkers called it Idiot Hill. Fifty-five years later, I took my children there and found myself wondering not just how it was built, but whether a place like it could ever be built again.

soulcruzer

soulcruzerAug 2, 2026

I picked up an old book this morning: …

I picked up an old book this morning: Perceiving Ordinary Magic: Science and Intuitive Wisdom by Jeremy Hayward. The cover is a blue corridor of repeating geometry, the kind of image that used to promise either a difficult physics lecture or a trip through somebody else’s consciousness. Somewhere in its opening territory, Hayward pointed me...

AttentionField Notes

Low Velocity

Low VelocityAug 2, 2026

Portland Obon Festival

We took the kids to the Obon Festival in SE Portland at the Oregon Buddhist Temple. We enjoyed the food, dancing, sumo, and traditional Japanese dress.

Field NotesGallery

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 31, 2026

I keep seeing headlines about the new rules …

I keep seeing headlines about the new rules of attention, usually written by somebody who wants to sell a better way of getting hold of it. The old rules were blunt enough. Interrupt people. Startle them. Keep them scrolling. Learn which colours, fears, desires and half-conscious wounds make a thumb hesitate for a second longer....

Attentionattention-economy

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 31, 2026

Yesterday, on a Wisdom Walk, I realised I …

Yesterday, on a Wisdom Walk, I realised I had been spending my attention in three directions at once. Part of me had gone backwards, picking over old choices and wishing I had chosen differently. Part had gone forwards, trying to get ahead of outcomes I cannot know. The rest kept looking for a side door...

Field NotesPersonal Power

Still Rolling OutdoorsJul 30, 2026

Steeper Gradients

Still Rolling OutdoorsJul 26, 2026

macwright.comJul 24, 2026

Printing tiny photos for paper journals

writing my journals on paperField Notes

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 16, 2026

I'm standing in a field looking towards the horizon. It occurs to me that I've spent a lifetime doing this. Different fields. Different coastlines. Different countries. Different versions of myself, always finding a line where earth gives itself over to sky. The horizon is a peculiar thing. It promises distance while refusing arrival. However far...

Alice Cooperchoice

Still Rolling OutdoorsJul 11, 2026

And It Stoned Me

soulcruzer

soulcruzerJul 11, 2026

This morning I had one of those spells …

This morning I had one of those spells where there were so many possible things to do that I couldn’t bring myself to choose any of them. Nothing dramatic. Just the little wheel-spin of a mind faced with too many open tabs and too many worthy directions. Then I decided to walk into town for...

Field NotesSoutham