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Essay2025-06-01· 29 min
2025, First Half: The Baton
January to June 2025: a checklist for getting out of the box, a drought behind the dam, four selves, and the baton set down.
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Essay2024-12-01· 28 min
2024: The Skiff
A developer at last, a quieter reading group, old diaries annotated, and a second postponed resignation: the year he built his own boat.
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Essay2023-12-01· 28 min
2023: Green Light
He shaved his head, quit after nine years, and set out to find a place where he could call the green light green.
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Essay2022-12-01· 32 min
2022: The Eve of the Storm
His spouse left for Seoul first, he handed over his reading group, and waited through depression for an answer from HR: the long night before the storm.
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Essay2021-12-01· 35 min
2021: The Empty Vertex
Every authority he leaned on fell away. Fiction about suicide, a well dug in Gwangyang, and the two sides that held his empty vertex.
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Essay2020-12-01· 38 min
2020: His Own Guardian
A canceled honeymoon, a small wedding in Jeju, a dog waiting at the door, and a reading group of two: the year he learned he was his own guardian.
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Essay2019-12-01· 28 min
2019: The Fry in the Puddle
Twenty-five in Gwangyang: loving his work while preparing to leave, a closed church, a marriage on his partner's terms, and a fry lifted out of a puddle.
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Essay2018-12-01· 29 min
Prologue: A Flower Watching the Hidden Sun
1994–2018. A boy who asked why the light was green, a white staircase, a church, and a café in an open field: the life before the blog.
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