News & Projects

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To Tommy and The Ones Who Come Home

A birthday meditation on belonging, abundance, and the rural renaissance already growing beneath our feet

August 13, 2026Read on Substack

🚨Warning: Generosity Season is Upon Us

Not foliage season. Not mud season. Not stick season. Generosity Season.

August 8, 2026Read on Substack

Our Relationship to the Forest

What falls locally — a meditation on pulp mills, data centers, and learning from a rural town in Austria

July 25, 2026Read on Substack

Projects

GIS map of public space assets and park potential in North Montpelier, showing the village boundary, the pond, potential park sites, and mapped 'third places' like the general store, library, and Masonic Hall.

A Reason to Gather: Social Infrastructure and Rural Revitalization in North Montpelier, Vermont

A Brown University senior capstone on what it would take for North Montpelier to become a village young people deliberately choose — starting not with a master plan, but with reasons to gather.