Tiny House Living

Reflections and advice based on years of thrift and simple living in a tiny house on wheels.

Poetry

Fantastic and earthy, playful and melancholy poems on such topics as love, nakedness, disillusionment, hidden creatures, and breakfast.

Geekdom

Thoughts on—and free resources for—fantasy, science fiction, worldbuilding, tabletop role-playing, and game design.

Homesteading

Gardening, cooking, and sustainable living on the land in Northern Michigan.

Placebo Magick

Spiritual, religious, magickal, and mystical practice for atheists and rationalists! Subscribe to the Placebo Magick Podcast using your favorite podcatcher or our RSS feed.

The Realm of Habdur

A re-imagining of human culture! At the intersection of fantasy worldbuilding, social action, spiritual practice, and homesteading awaits the vast ten acre realm of Habdur.

Recent Posts

Podcast episode from Thursday, November 15, 2018:

Placebo Magick Podcast Ep. 1: Introduction to Placebo Magick

Memory Charms

In this first episode of the Placebo Magick Podcast, I introduce the concept of placebo magick and share a bit about my own evolving practice. The Spell of the Week is a charm to help you cherish and remember a special time with a loved one.

Subscribe to the Placebo …

Read | Comment

Patreon-supported poem from Wednesday, November 14, 2018:

Inviting

Glimpse of a mythic self
Habdur, "the inviting
here and now",
"the space
of invitation",
waits
at the Nexus of Possibilities,
calls
at the Crossroads of Multiverses,
cradles
in the weaving of the Thousand Thousand Ways
we could have lived,

we could yet live.
Here we rest our heads
very near to past selves,
future …
Read | Comment

Poem from Tuesday, November 13, 2018:

Snatches of the Dream

Papa Hat
—to have love,
to feel love,
to hold love,
to make love,
to make use of love,
to know love,
to magnify love,
and yet
never to fall
in—
Read | Comment

Patreon-supported poem from Monday, November 12, 2018:

Ancestor Worship

Papa Hat
Always I have kept a Special Box,
a box made Special by the items inside
flowing with Meaning and Memory.

The Box itself has changed, moved
from house to house—
admittedly
it has always been made of cardboard
and admittedly
along the away I threw some Special items
into the …
Read | Comment

Patreon-supported poem from Thursday, November 8, 2018:

Loving Enemies

Wolfenstein 3D, player aiming gun at Nazis
Thich Nhat Hanh may be wrong
on one point—there is a use
for everything, a way to transmute anything
in your mind
using the Philosopher's Stone
of mindfulness, even violent

video games.
To practice this, look down and see
an assault rifle in your hand, look up and see …
Read | Comment

Explore by Category

Explore by Tag

Paul Simon, homesteading, Rumi, Tony Hoagland, footsteps, possessions, recycling, Habdur, formal poetry, beer, The X-Files, geekdom, America, the body, poop, gods, bipolar disorder, Bigfoot, eating, homemaking, heroism, God, melons, politics, dancing, television, coding, war, children, abstractions, nakedness, Pokémon, shame, ducks, Dungeon World, Peter Gabriel, Tao Te Ching, Little House on the Parking Lot, community, tiny house, kitchen, worldbuilding, science fiction, Firestarters, kale, architecture, freedom, Placebo Magick Podcast, sadness, rhyming poetry, community feedback, mothers, tiny house construction, emotions, Costa Rica, peace, alternate fantasy races, racism, art, space, car-freedom, kisses, water, scars, Millenials, campaign pitch, win-win, writing, interbeing, urban farming, hell, sustainability, halflings, horror, game design, Habdurspak, elves, villains, maps, Discworld, tea, cowboys, dandelions, Noah, work, narcissism, Legend of Zelda, wholeness, dwarves, outlet mall, Earth Wind & Fire, creative projects, The Andy Griffith Show, storytelling, DIY, Jonah, dinosaurs, poetry, clothing, salvation, prayer, Wendell Berry, Star Wars, Rory's Story Cubes, hidden creatures, Wile E. Coyote, LEGO, rain barrels, gratitude, night, falling, summer squash, hospitality, waiting, jazz, apocalypse, anger, geese, fathers, church, Habdur runes, tabletop RPGs, Indiana Jones, Thich Nhat Hanh, forgiveness, composting toilets, Batman, undead, beauty, coffee, Reimagined Culture, dogs, Black Lives Matter, gardening, Donald Trump, fear, creativity, surprise baby chicks, fantasy sandbox, Jesus, happiness, aliens, video games, placebo magick, rain, final solutions, wildness, dreams, The Sims, fantasy, Noble Peasants, death, cooking, morning, heaven, simple living, breakfast, dishes, humans, random generators, martyrdom, mindfulness, short poems, teeth, chickens, kohlrabi, bicycles, wordlessness, conlangs, superheroes, bears, raspberries, men, Thoreau, music, preserves, sin, love, loss, pizza, sex, conspiracies, summer, AI, Bernie Sanders, Heroes and Danger, myth, marriage, Top Ten, shhh, disillusionment, Mister Rogers, thrift, love letters, longing, farmers, compost, breathing, winter, salvaged food

© 2018 Garrison Benson (except where otherwise noted).