Dude, this is awesome. I don't think it would make a difference if you wrote 40 or any other number; although, write this again when you're 70, and it'll be twice as awesome.
Getting an email notifying me of a new post of yours is always a nice surprise. Reading this resonated with me. I turn 37 in May and I find a lot of similarities in your life experiences and mine. Maybe it's a shared generational feeling? Some sort of common thing that permeates through all of us?
Whatever it may be, thank you for your writing! Oh yeah, Happy birthday! I used to dread birthdays, not so much because of the arbitrary turning a different, older age. More so just the idea of keeping track of time through a series of finite numbers to be ticked off and crossed out over, say, experiences and memories like you mentioned. Haha, I'm rambling sorry!
Happy Birthday, Joshua! It seems life hasn't been the same since before the wildfires in LA. I hope you can find some peace in your writing. Your first book did very well, so maybe a second is on the horizon. ❤️🎉
I'm in my early 30s and starting to feel the age a bit for the first time! I think there's a passage about Hemingway saying the most surprising thing about life is that we have to keep going. Your writing is entertaining and I've laughed hysterically at your standup. Keep going.
This: "Evil seems like aberration when you’ve traipsed along mountain trails to a waterfall with a friend opening his heart to you as you do the same to him. There is a reason capitalism is referred to as a parasite. Colonialism, genocide, are infectious disease symptoms of the parasite but they are not the host body. Babies aren’t born to rob others of life. Our innate goodness has been scrubbed from the record by capital unless it can be commodified or used to control. But we have a history of goodness as a species. Evil is still the exception. I still haven’t learned to believe otherwise."
"Expressing joy at what is" the way you do, Joshua, is (as you obviously know) the whole point. I've never understood why people would want to retire from work they're so obviously good at, and love. Happy 40th!
have you read "the creative act: a way of being" by rick rubin? happy 40th. i turned 40 the day obama was elected the first time in 2008. i was born the day nixon was elected.
Thank you thank you for sharing the gift of your writing with us on your birthday. Feeling it in my heart, deeply relatable. Hope you’re enjoying the sun on your face today and everyday, and that life post fires is treating yall fine.
Dude, this is awesome. I don't think it would make a difference if you wrote 40 or any other number; although, write this again when you're 70, and it'll be twice as awesome.
Thank you Philip!
Getting an email notifying me of a new post of yours is always a nice surprise. Reading this resonated with me. I turn 37 in May and I find a lot of similarities in your life experiences and mine. Maybe it's a shared generational feeling? Some sort of common thing that permeates through all of us?
Whatever it may be, thank you for your writing! Oh yeah, Happy birthday! I used to dread birthdays, not so much because of the arbitrary turning a different, older age. More so just the idea of keeping track of time through a series of finite numbers to be ticked off and crossed out over, say, experiences and memories like you mentioned. Haha, I'm rambling sorry!
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Happy Birthday, Joshua! It seems life hasn't been the same since before the wildfires in LA. I hope you can find some peace in your writing. Your first book did very well, so maybe a second is on the horizon. ❤️🎉
Thank you Yolanda I agree re the fires. I am almost done with my next book! Cant wait for it to get out there
AWESOME! Please let me know if you are running low on something.
So much to relate to, and rendered in such a fine and moving way. I’m so glad I found your writing (via an Instagram reel!!) Happy birthday!
So glad too thanks Liz!
I'm in my early 30s and starting to feel the age a bit for the first time! I think there's a passage about Hemingway saying the most surprising thing about life is that we have to keep going. Your writing is entertaining and I've laughed hysterically at your standup. Keep going.
This: "Evil seems like aberration when you’ve traipsed along mountain trails to a waterfall with a friend opening his heart to you as you do the same to him. There is a reason capitalism is referred to as a parasite. Colonialism, genocide, are infectious disease symptoms of the parasite but they are not the host body. Babies aren’t born to rob others of life. Our innate goodness has been scrubbed from the record by capital unless it can be commodified or used to control. But we have a history of goodness as a species. Evil is still the exception. I still haven’t learned to believe otherwise."
Nice. Philip Costea, I’m 72 and Joshua could have written this for me. It’s all good.
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This was a great read. All of it feels true
Hustle is the absence of culture. Creating art, is culture. Keep writing.
“I still haven’t learned to not find riding a bike the ultimate sense of freedom.” YES! 💥
This is wonderful
"Expressing joy at what is" the way you do, Joshua, is (as you obviously know) the whole point. I've never understood why people would want to retire from work they're so obviously good at, and love. Happy 40th!
have you read "the creative act: a way of being" by rick rubin? happy 40th. i turned 40 the day obama was elected the first time in 2008. i was born the day nixon was elected.
Havent read it! You like it? Pivotal birthdays it sounds like
i listened to it on two long walks. i loved it!
Thank you for your writing, it makes me feel less alone. Happy Birthday.
Thank you so much!
Thank you thank you for sharing the gift of your writing with us on your birthday. Feeling it in my heart, deeply relatable. Hope you’re enjoying the sun on your face today and everyday, and that life post fires is treating yall fine.
Love this and deeply relate to this, especially the parts on creativity and “navigating the marketplace.” Definitely resonates in my 30s.