Jesse Timm

March 22, 2025

Dependence is not a dirty word

Jesse Timm

March 22, 2025

I wake at 4:30a. My alarm welcomes me to the day as gently as is possible for an alarm to do. My very first action is to hit snooze. My second action is to drink a plant-based, caffeine-heavy preworkout energizer. I catch a few more minutes of rest while I wait for the caffeine to kick in…

Jesse Timm

March 15, 2025

Relationships all the way down

Jesse Timm

March 15, 2025

Nature abhors a vacuum? No. Nature is primarily a vacuum. A vacuum is a state of overwhelming absence, which—as it turns out—describes the vast majority of physical space in the observable universe. What nature actually abhors is a binary…

Jesse Timm

March 8, 2025

Help isn't coming

Jesse Timm

March 8, 2025

I have a tattoo on my left wrist. It's not a complicated tattoo. It's a nondescript combination of three simple words in the handwriting of someone I'll never know, someone who would probably be perplexed to learn that a stranger committed their penmanship to his body with indelible ink…

Jesse Timm

March 1, 2025

Preserving memory in amber

Jesse Timm

March 1, 2025

When I was about seven or so, I had a dream that was particularly memorable to me. In this dream, I possessed the ability to fly. Better than that, even: in this dream, I was lucid, an active agent in the world of my subconscious, not merely an observational passenger…

Jesse Timm

February 22, 2025

Our collective social dementia

Jesse Timm

February 22, 2025

Our body politic is sick; we are collectively demented. This dementia of our social consciousness now threatens the integrity of our social conscience—limited as it may have been to begin with. The very existence of our centuries old American experiment is in greater jeopardy than it has been since the Civil War…

Jesse Timm

February 2, 2025

Sibling maladies

Jesse Timm

February 2, 2025

Hope and despair are fraternal twins. They share a common genetic origin, gestate contemporaneously, are born around the same time and in the same place, mature side-by-side, but their individual expressions diverge greatly…

Jesse Timm

January 1, 2025

It could happen

Jesse Timm

January 1, 2025

Here's an observation…Within me—currently and historically—a yin-yang duality is at war. At present, there's an imbalance threatening the whole of the internal system…

Jesse Timm

August 31, 2024

Sisyphus is finally happy

Jesse Timm

August 31, 2024

The year is circa 2011. It's the tail end of a transitional era in music history. Physical media is seemingly on the way out. Digital media is on the rise. But streaming services, in the way we now understand them, don't yet exist, not—at least—in a way that's accessible to me or my friends...

Jesse Timm

January 1, 2024

The path is a spiral

Jesse Timm

January 1, 2024

A year is a funny thing. So much time and no time at all. And through the sheer attrition of temporal perspective accumulated over the course of a lifetime, each passes faster than that which preceded it…