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An archive of letters, stories and shorter pieces. The full letters are free here. The physical version arrives in your letterbox.
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"The one about the road that goes nowhere useful and arrives somewhere beautiful"
A letter about detours. About the roads you take not because they are efficient but because you know they will change something in you by the time you arrive.
March 2026 - 6 minute read
"The one about the road that goes nowhere useful and arrives somewhere beautiful"
A letter about detours. About the roads you take not because they are efficient but because you know they will change something in you by the time you arrive.
"On the usefulness of doing nothing in particular"
A letter about idleness as a creative act. And the Irish tradition of sitting in a field and calling it thinking.
"The window and what it knows"
Windowsills as witnesses. Everything a windowsill in the west of Ireland has seen in a hundred years.
"Gifts that do not require wrapping"
On the strange intimacy of a letter in the post. Why physical things still matter.
"A song about the small things"
The month I wrote a song about a particular quality of November light in Wicklow.
"Why I keep drawing the same road"
A meditation on repetition in art. Why painting the same landscape thirty times is not laziness.
"On being curious when it is hard to be"
Curiosity as a discipline, not a mood. How to stay interested in a world that is trying to exhaust you.
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Wicklow Mountains, Ireland