Personal essays by Justin Schafer. Published on the lunar calendar. On masculinity, fatherhood, desire, and building a life that fits.
On chaos, surrender, and leaving California unfinished the day before Berlin.
On leaving California's light for Berlin's shadow, the wall that came down when I was almost two, and the work of becoming less divided.
On beauty as the highest aim, hiding as the gap, and what opens when you stop managing the light. Today, Tala's books go public.
A coming-out manifesto on wanting wealth and power, the communist in spirit, and what keeps a king uncorruptible.
A Cybertruck loaner, a town full of glares, and the mechanism underneath both.
A dream about Trump, inherited masculinity, shovels, and artificial beehives.