What Convenience Costs
A reflection on the skills and everyday rituals we trade for convenience.
NOTES FROM A LIFE IN PROGRESS
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Stories, poetry, and photographs by Benjamin Foskey, from a life in progress.
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THE PERSONAL JOURNAL OFBenjamin FoskeySTORIES · POETRY · LIFE
A moment from my photo archiveStart here
Three pieces to begin with.
The Big Plan
A late-night conversation with ambition about plans, preparation, and starting smaller.
The Gray Awakening
A collection of poetry and personal reflections. Free to read and download.
The journal / 01
6 stories, newest first
Reflections3 MIN READ
An Ouroboros of Doors
Each threshold feels like a decision. Surely all this opening must be taking you somewhere. Then you notice the scratch beside the hinge. You have seen it before.
Reflections4 MIN READ
Take the Long Way
Somewhere near your house is a road you’ve never been down. You’ve passed it a hundred times. You know the turn exists. Every time, you’ve had somewhere to be. I wonder what’s down there. Probably houses. A mailbox…
Reflections5 MIN READ
What You Leave in the Room
Last week, I asked who wakes up in your bed. This week, I keep thinking about who walks away from your table. The person who just had lunch with you. The child who came to show you something. The stranger who got…
Reflections7 MIN READ
Who Woke Up This Morning?
Last night, you stopped. Not died. Just stopped. Somewhere after you closed your eyes, the lights went out. No thoughts. No you. Hours passed that you have no record of, and you weren't there for a single one of…
Reflections7 MIN READ
Common Sense Isn’t Common 250 Years Later
Common sense is not common. It must be made common by courage. It must be shouted until it echoes. It must be lived until it cannot be forgotten.
Reflections3 MIN READ
Congruence
If I claim to believe something, where is the evidence of that belief in my life? Not in what I post. Not in what I intend. In how I actually spe…
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What I’m building.
Site Squared SRQ, Foskey Property Solutions, and the projects taking shape in the Workshop.
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