I wear glasses because as a child I would stay up late, covers pulled over my head, reading by the dim light of a dying flashlight. At least that’s what an eye doctor told me when I was younger. Probably a load of crap, but I still love reading and I still often do it by poor light far later in the night than is reasonable.

I’ve always taken notes while reading so I thought might as well put them online. So here you have it, books I’ve read and things I’ve thought about them.

Once upon a time I posted photographs in galleries mostly separate from the writing posts. This was back when Flickr was a heavily used service with a wonderful API that made it easy for me to upload things via Flickr and pull them in here. I don’t do that anymore, but I’ve preserved all the old galleries if you’d like to see some photos from around the world in 2005-2010.

“If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you’ll come to understand that you’re connected with everything.” – Alan Watts

Being connected is part of travel. If you aren’t connected to everything, then why would you go? Some of my first travels were trips to America’s National Parks — Sequoia, Zion, Yosemite, Canyonlands — I am connected to these places. This a partial retracing those connections as well as an attempt to find more.

For a while I had another blog at the URL longhandpixels.net. I made a few half-hearted attempts to make money with it, which I refuse to do here. I felt uncomfortable with the marketing that required and a little bit dirty about the whole thing. I don’t want to spend my life writing things that will draw in people to buy my book. Honestly, I don’t care about selling the book. Long story short; I shut down longhandpixels and created luxagraf:src.