Essays & notes.
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Why orange — and why esoteric
Buddhist monks wear orange. The color carries warmth, intensity, and a particular kind of quiet ferocity. The site name was never an accident.
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On not publishing the first novel
I had a teacher who could have gotten the first manuscript onto a publisher’s desk before I turned twenty-one. I told her no — and I’m grateful for…
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Way and War: the distinction modern aikido lost
Aikido has been treated as a Way for so long that the War has gone out of it. The art was always both — and recovering the second…
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