Today I celebrate the fortieth anniversary of my arrival on this planet to take up residence in the present flesh suit. For forty years, I’ve been growing, learning cool stuff, alchemizing pain, overcoming obstacles, rejecting authority, writing extremist manifestos, becoming more awesome, experiencing the full range of human emotion, and generally having a good time.
I gotta say, though, that these past couple of years have been the best of my life so far. That might seem weird to say, considering THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
But that’s what crisis do. It nudges you—or, rather, it unceremoniously shoves you—toward realignment with what’s true, good, and congruent with your essential self.
Over the past two years, I have:
Started this Substack
Written a book
Worked on and published chapters of another book
Started Extremists Being Awesome, the deep state conspiracy to get anarchists to get shit done
Made lots of new friends
Delved deeper than ever into the unexamined portions of my own psyche in order to increase my personal fulfillment and the amount of awesomeness I am able to give to the world
And a ton of other stuff
All while assessing the trajectory of our present dystopia with unflinching honesty.
And I’m by no means done yet.
My fifth decade promises to be even better. I’ve got big plans, lofty visions, and plenty of room for spontaneous fun stuff. I hope you’ll stick around to experience all of it with me, regardless of THE CIRCUMSTANCES.
Want to wish me a happy birthday in the form of digital units of currency, unbacked by anything but an insane, inflated, and close to bursting trust in the United States government?
You can do that via the options below. All birthday dollars will go toward the production of an audiobook version of How to Survive Dystopia!
Happy Birthday, Starr!!!!
These are truly the times that test the soul, and it is inspiring to see what you have done with these CIRCUMSTANCES!
Happy Birthday! I also, strangely, feel that these past two+ years have been amazing and wonderful. I guess we really were born for this time:) I didn’t realize you got married in the middle of all this!