Nathan Whitcomb

Old man rests on an oak when his rough skin thickens to bark & his old bones feel the strength of green growth; his hair flattens to leaves.

Shout out to everyone who’s been practicing social distancing out of pure awkwardness for the last ten years

Whenever I experience Art from the Renaissance I can’t help but think how shallow our culture has grown.

Best thing about listening to classical music is all the emotions it inspires in you that don’t have names for. We are capable of so much more complexity that most art asks of us.

You have to wonder how many parents are afraid that if they raise kids who are emotional, expressive, sensitive, nuanced, and vulnerable enough to experience in a meaningful way, those kids will just end hurt by the world. We are so afraid of each other, afraid of failure.

I’ve somehow lived three lifetimes in the last five years.

Classic midwestern passive aggression meets the 21st century workplace in the delightful form of Slack status icons.

We should change baseball so that the fielding team scores a point if the pitcher hits the batter. #solvedit

Anything can happen if given the necessary sequence of events. You can have whatever you want given your willingness to start the chain reaction necessary to produce your desired outcome.

When one is the difference between you and loneliness.

Game of tag but I’m never it.

Love is a childhood toy we grow out of and let gather dust on a shelf, before boxing it up, saving it for sentimental value, and leaving it somewhere in the dark for our children to find and wonder at.

Meme and Theme accounts are not a complex form of self-expression.

Make adulthood matter as something more than the glorified performance art of Millennials the econometrics forgot.

Let’s bring back high culture.

End youth culture.

I get why young people crave revolution. It's not socialism they want, it's human fucking connection. Millennials are not the problem. Friendsgiving and FriendsChistmas are not millennials destroying family, they're young people escaping the constrictions of holiday idealism.

This Christmas I just want everyone on my life to actually look eachother in the eyes.

I'm not the most religious guy alive but I'm with the people who say they want Christ in Christmas as long as that means a return to the solemnity and quiet sense of renewal that form the secular pagan and Judeo-Christian roots of the holiday season and Christmas.

Materialism isn't the problem with Christmas, idealism is. We are choking on traditions that have been fed through the culture machines of commercialism and social media, constantly comparing ourselves others and an idealized form of experiential beauty.

In Dickens' Christmas Carol, Scrooge built chains of greed. We are still building those chains but our greed is for fulfilling Christmas ideals: decorations, feats, presents on presents, cookies, celebrations on all sides, Christmas cards, Thank You notes, Christmas experiences.