It is a peculiar phenomenon of the modern age, I think, to watch someone you vaguely know suddenly, and inexplicably, go viral. I was looking at the Instagram page of a local bakery the other day—a perfectly fine, relatively quiet establishment down the street from my house. For months, their online presence had been an […]
J'étais debout dans ma cuisine l'autre nuit, relativement tard, à simplement fixer le plafond. C'est un silence très spécifique, profondément troublant, lorsque vous êtes réveillé à deux heures du matin et que vous l'entendez enfin. Ce bruit faible, rythmique, presque imperceptible de l'eau qui goutte quelque part derrière les cloisons sèches. C'est, je pense, l'une […]
I was actually just reading an article the other morning—well, scanning it, really, while trying to distract myself from a lingering sensitivity in one of my lower molars. It’s funny, I think, how we tend to compartmentalize our bodies. We worry constantly about our hearts, our cholesterol, the vague and terrifying concept of our general […]
I was staring at the living room wall the other day. It’s funny how you can live in a house for years, walking past the same hallway every single morning, and then suddenly you stop and realize that the paint is just… looking incredibly tired. There are scuff marks from where the vacuum cleaner hits […]
I was thinking recently about how drastically the cannabis landscape has changed over the last, I don't know, maybe five or six years. It’s actually quite jarring if you stop and really look at it. I remember a time when the only real decision you had to make was whether you wanted to buy whatever […]
I was reading this article the other day—or maybe it was a podcast, honestly, all the media I consume just sort of blurs together at this point. But it was talking about the clinical trials they are doing right now with psilocybin. It is actually kind of wild to think about. Just a few years […]
I was just scrolling through my phone the other night, looking at how completely unrecognizable the alternative wellness market is now compared to even five years ago. It’s actually strange how quickly we adapt to things. Well, I suppose it just speaks to how much the culture has fundamentally shifted. A few years ago, finding […]
It is, perhaps, one of the more profound and quietly disorienting cultural shifts of our current generation. I was sitting at my kitchen island just the other morning, absentmindedly scrolling through the digital pages of a Sunday supplement, and I paused on an article detailing the latest clinical trials involving psilocybin. The narrative surrounding this […]
It is actually quite fascinating, I think, to sit back and observe what happens when a massive cultural novelty finally wears off and settles into the mundane rhythm of everyday commerce. I remember the initial wave of legalization here in Canada. There was this palpable, almost chaotic sense of excitement. Everyone rushed to these newly […]
I was digging through some old internet archives the other evening—just sort of falling down one of those inevitable, late-night digital rabbit holes that happen when you really should be sleeping—and I stumbled across a blog from maybe 2008 or 2009. It had one of those classic, incredibly chaotic tag clouds sitting right there in […]