🎧 Field Note 2.1: The Wind Has No Papers

This is a bonus episode of No Shortcuts to Now — a companion to Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View.

Field Notes are shorter reflections — moments of thought and observation from the trail.

This one takes flight with migrating butterflies, natural law, and the question of borders.

In this episode: Lassen updrafts, hard-working butterflies, sacred law, masked ravens, and the Constitution’s deeper promise.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Waypoint 2.1: To Gain the Wider View

This is the first episode of Season 2 of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: ravens and kites, the breath of the soul, mountaintop visions, fall migration, Plato’s wings, and the long view of history.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New to the trail? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Waypoint 1.5: No Shortcuts to Now

This is the fifth audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: gravel underfoot, forbidden shortcuts, ancient Septembers, patient ascent, and the mountain’s quiet face.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

New here? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Field Note 1.4 – After The Map Burns

This is a companion to the fourth audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this bonus episode: perspectivism, fundamentalism, Marcus Aurelius, democratic knowledge, and why truth must be earned — not declared.

In this episode: perspectivism, fundamentalism, Marcus Aurelius, democratic knowledge, and why truth must be earned — not declared.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Waypoint 1.4: The Map Is Not The Mountain

This is the fourth audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: volcanic awe, spiderwebs, Marcus Aurelius, chocolate chip cookies, and the fragile, silken line we call knowledge.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Field Note 1.3 (b): The Ratatoskr Files

This is a Field Note — not a full Waypoint, but a reflection. A pause to track the tremors and catch our breath.

In this episode: Trump, Musk, mythology, and masks. A meditation on shame, power, and what lies beneath.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Waypoint 1.3: The Trailhead

This is the third audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: matchmaking and myth, squirrels and Norse symbols, and the quiet moments before the climb begins.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? → 📘 Begin here

🎧 Waypoint 1.2: Trees of Forbidden Knowledge

This is the second audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: childhood awe, volcanic gospel, and the long tension between wonder and silence, play and power.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? → Chapter 1 Index: Standing in The Ancient Shadow

🎧 Waypoint 1.1: Vulcan’s Evangelist

This is the first audio installment of No Shortcuts to Now — a journey through myth, memory, and meaning in turbulent times.

In this episode: volcanoes, bedtime playdough, Caligula, and the boy who dragged me up the mountain.

👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now

📖 Prefer to read? The full text is included below.

🗂️ New here? Start at the beginning →

Thanks for listening. No shortcuts.

Trailer: No Shortcuts to Now

An introduction to the audio companion of No Shortcuts to Now — a serialized book weaving myth, memory, and political reflection into a slow-burning meditation on the present.

This short episode lays out the path ahead: waypoints, field notes, and a search for meaning in an age of shortcuts and spectacle. If the voice brings the words closer, walk with me.

Explore the written chapters, background, and more: noshortcutstonow.substack.com👉 Subscribe to No Shortcuts to Now