When places speak through people: revisiting Sonoma by way of a sculptor by Nicolás Boullosa on December 4, 2025 Sometimes a stranger’s note brings a whole story flooding back: redwoods, copper surfaces, a tea house, sculptures people “use”… Remembering …
Hot springs & human culture: the overlooked energy beneath our feet by Nicolás Boullosa on November 26, 2025 Hot springs have soothed bodies and shaped cultures from Scandinavia to Japan for thousands of years. But the same ancient …
Tale of our surveilled reality: two poems & the last uncontacted tribes by Nicolás Boullosa on November 20, 2025 In an age of total surveillance, even our inner lives feel exposed. Yet the world still holds a few communities …
Capturing the vanishing, learning to let go: on aura, photography & being present by Nicolás Boullosa on November 13, 2025 Walter Benjamin warned that machines would steal the “aura” from art. Between a celebrated old travel-photography archive and every other …
A question of Trust: why our Gilded Age moment might inspire a civic revival by Nicolás Boullosa on November 6, 2025 In the first Gilded Age, fortunes found their conscience in public libraries and civic architecture. In this one, wealth seeks …
Bioremediation: plants, fungi & microbes help soil heal itself by Nicolás Boullosa on October 31, 2025 After soil is contaminated, regeneration begins below the surface — where microbes, roots, fungi, and people work together to heal …
Reenchantment: Autumn’s light, solitary huts & the art of seeing afresh by Nicolás Boullosa on October 22, 2025 What if a text read like a slow walk? The truest form of luxury is not online but contemplative. Autumn …
Void, or the space between us: on individualism, the commons, and purpose by Nicolás Boullosa on October 16, 2025 You don’t live in a vacuum. You live among echoes — digital, cultural, ancestral — shaping the melody of your …
The death of depth—and of long-form—is (maybe) greatly exaggerated by Nicolás Boullosa on October 8, 2025 On the vanishing patience for depth, and the quiet rebellion of those who still read. Loosely paraphrasing Mark Twain, the …
Disconnection -> belonging: nobody’s building the pathways we’ve forgotten by Nicolás Boullosa on September 25, 2025 How tribal loyalties and fractured dialogue erode the commons. Why thinkers warned us of ethical collapse, and how conviviality might …
