Cruel Optimism

Entries

12: Trip

A Tokyo reunion amidst memory, aging, and feeling both at home and displaced across time.

By Dean Bowman • 7 min read

Entries

11: Disconnected

From sea walls to city walls.

By Dean Bowman • 4 min read

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10: Passage

Fragments from an intercontinental journey.

By Dean Bowman • 6 min read

Poetry

after breaking

Broken glass, memory, and the refractive light that leads the heart to peace through pain.

By Dean Bowman • 1 min read

Entries

12: Trip

A Tokyo reunion amidst memory, aging, and feeling both at home and displaced across time.

By Dean Bowman • 7 min read

Entries

11: Disconnected

From sea walls to city walls.

By Dean Bowman • 4 min read

Entries

10: Passage

Fragments from an intercontinental journey.

By Dean Bowman • 6 min read

Entries

09: Waiting Rooms

The reason I'm never bored.

By Dean Bowman • 2 min read

Poetry

2:43

Recursion, insomnia, and the kind of haunting you can't outrun—a lyric piece born from waking at the exact same moment, night after night.

By Dean Bowman • 2 min read