All my writings, videos, and creative works from over the years — most recent first.

2024

Nov 4 Late Night Letter: Love on the Eve of an Election

Oct 2 Late Night Letter: Movement is Medicine

Sep 8 YESMAN INTERVIEW @ Festival of Yes 2024

Sep 5 Late Night Letter: YESMAN INTERVIEW

Aug 1 Late Night Letter: Flying to the Festival of Yes

Jul 2 Late Night Letter: How Do You Spend Your Sunsets?

Jun 5 Late Night Letter: They Paved Paradise and Put Up a Parking Lot

May 2 Late Night Letter: High Heels and Healthy Feet

Apr 24 The Best Rick Rubin Interviews on the Internet

Apr 3 Late Night Letter: Change is the Nature of Life

Mar 4 Late Night Letter: What Would You Do If You Had No Fear?

Mar 1 The Wonder Project: The Wonder of Space

Feb 6 Late Night Letter: Running Around Half-Naked and Breathing It In Deep

Jan 20 8 Things that Shaped Me in 2023

Jan 3 Late Night Letter: How Energy Stays Alive

Jan 1 Live Now

2023

Dec 4 Late Night Letter: Running Risks Instead of Sitting Them

Nov 28 What is a Mystic (And How to Be One)?

Nov 19 2dreamagain @ Saguaro Lake, Arizona 09.24.2023 {dreamy multicultural house music}

Nov 2 Late Night Letter: Find Out What is Possible

Oct 7 WONDER WANDER 2023: A Short Documentary

Oct 4 Late Night Letter: The Cold Hard World Hasn’t Gotten Me Yet

Sep 5 Late Night Letter: Psychomagic and Cosmic Consciousness at the Festival of Yes

Aug 31 Cosmic Consciousness: A Speech at the Festival of Yes

Aug 2 Late Night Letter: Paradigm Shifts and the In This Together Bumper Sticker

July 31 Introducing the 'In This Together' Bumper Sticker

Jun 30 Late Night Letter: Embodied Resonance and Knowing By Gnosis

May 31 Late Night Letter: Summer and Introducing Favorites

May 17 Introducing Favorites: A Reimagining of the Needlestack

May 1 Late Night Letter: Man Overboard

Apr 30 Man Overboard

Apr 2 Late Night Letter: Sputtering vs. Swinging Like a Pendulum

Mar 2 Late Night Letter: A Wild Asian Business Trip

Mar 2 Waking Up in the Middle of a Dream

Feb 1 Late Night Letter: Rituals and the Power of Consistency

Jan 9 2022 In Review and A Glance at the Map

Jan 4 Late Night Letter: How to Spend Your Life

2022

Dec 7 Follow Your Curiosity and Cultivate Interest to Live a Captivating Life

Dec 1 Late Night Letter: Spend Time Not Money

Nov 29 Shoutout Colorado: Meet Ethan Maurice | Writer, Photographer, & Creative at Large

Nov 21 The Wonder of WONDER WANDER 2022

Nov 16 WONDER WANDER 2022 Highlight Reel

Nov 2 Late Night Letter: Psychomagic and How WONDER WANDER Came to Be

Oct 3 Late Night Letter: Cosmic Awareness is a Bottomless Sense of Wonder

Sep 15 The Size of the Universe, Einstein, and Cosmic Religion

Sep 2 Late Night Letter: Primary Reality, Secondary Reality, and a Foot in Each

Aug 1 Late Night Letter: The Stress and Bliss of Doing It Your Way

Jul 1 Late Night Letter: Show Up If You Want It to Happen to You

Jun 2 Late Night Letter: Primary Reality on the Pale Blue Dot

May 30 The Shamanic Dance in the Waterfall

May 11 In Full Effect Podcast: Ethan Maurice - Writer & Unconventional Traveler

May 2 Late Night Letter: Work in a State of Mind that Approaches Prayer

Apr 1 Late Night Letter: It’s Time to Send It

Mar 2 Late Night Letter: Can You Find and Lose Yourself?

Feb 24 Spiritually Expansive (on danscreativeoutlet)

Feb 4 Late Night Letter: Colombia and John “Jesus” Frusciante

Jan 31 2021 in Review and a Glance at the Map

Jan 20 John "Jesus" Frusciante

Jan 2 Late Night Letter: 30 Años

2021

Dec 9 The Wonder of WONDER WANDER 2021

Dec 3 Late Night Letter: Meeting Rad People Through Writing

Nov 1 Late Night Letter: The Primary Miraculousness of Creation

Oct 28 Cleaving the Difference

Oct 1 Late Night Letter: Ingesting and Digesting Experiences

Sep 1 Late Night Letter: Moving Too Fast

Aug 31 In Awe: Why We Close Off From Wonder

Aug 2 Late Night Letter: How Books and Life Go Together

Jul 1 Late Night Letter: Uncertainty is the Thrill of Living

Jun 1 Late Night Letter: Do You Use Technology or Does Technology Use You

May 31 15 Books That Changed My Life

May 1 Late Night Letter: Vacation as an Emptying Out

Apr 15 The Question of Yes or No

Apr 2 Late Night Letter: The Cave You Fear to Enter Holds the Treasure You Seek

Mar 11 The Art of Bathroom Reading

Mar 1 Late Night Letter: Knowing Death is the Key to Fearlessness

Feb 1 Late Night Letter: Flow Like Water Towards Inner Riches

Jan 18 7 Reasons to Make a Needlestack

Jan 12 2020 In Review and A Glance Ahead

Jan 4 Late Night Letter: Happy New Year, the Needlestack, and Surfing Time

Jan 4 Introducing the Needlestack

2020

Dec 21 15 Ways to Surf Time

Dec 17 CEDAR Weekly Podcast: The Philosophies of Death and Wonder with Ethan Maurice

Dec 1 Late Night Letter: Writing at Sunrise and Viewing the World Through a Lens

Nov 19 Joseph Campbell's Reading List

Nov 12 On Viewing the World Through a Lens

Oct 31 Late Night Letter: Places Changing vs. Changing Places

Oct 1 Late Night Letter: If You’re Stuck You’re Asking the Wrong Questions

Sep 28 Five Years Ago I Started Wondering Wandering and Writing

Sep 3 Late Night Letter: The Five Year Anniversary

Aug 1 Late Night Letter: Striving for Lightness in Dark Times

July 16 The Symbols I Consciously Include in My Life

Jul 1 Late Night Letter: Pausing Flight School During the Pandemic

Jun 29 The Unsung Power of Symbols (& How to Use Them in Your Own Life)

Jun 1 Late Night Letter: Catskill Eagles and My Private Pilot’s License

May 4 Late Night Letter: Coronavirus and a Pen Run Dry

Apr 2 Late Night Letter: Three Helpful Ideas for a Pandemic

Mar 1 Late Night Letter: Great Views and Flying with My Grandfather

Feb 26 Sand Art

Feb 11 When Objectivity Fails to Keep Us Human

Feb 1 Late Night Letter: The Great Entanglement of Light and Dark

Jan 20 2019 In Review

Jan 4 Late Night Letter: I Try to Be Available for Life to Happen to Me

2019

Dec 19 Refresh Yourself: The Daily Art of Pressing Your Reset Button

Dec 5 The Endless Dance

Dec 1 Late Night Letter: Self-Propulsion and Sunsets

Nov 20 I Strive to Be Cheap, Sensitive, and Naked to the World

Nov 1 Late Night Letter: Our Minds Snag on the Problematic Parts of Our Experience

Oct 1 Late Night Letter: What Are You Looking For?

Sep 16 The 12 Best Podcast Episodes I've Ever Heard

Sep 1 Late Night Letter: Clipping My Wings to Learn to Fly

Aug 29 Three Summers in Silver Gate, Montana

Aug 1 Late Night Letter: To Curate Your Life is to Curate Yourself

July 22 How I Learned to Float Against the Tide

Jul 1 Late Night Letter: A Glorious Summer in Flagstaff

June 30 How to Find Wonder in Any Moment

May 31 Late Night Letter: I Want to Fly

May 28 Stop Thinking You Have Lifetime Ahead of You

May 15 A Dozen Ways to Live Rent Free

May 1 Late Night Letter: Nepal, Cambodia, and Putting a Signal Out in the World

Apr 30 Nepal: Kathmandu and A Trek Around the Annapurna Circuit

Apr 5 Late Night Letter: Himalayan Highs and Pigeon Hunts in Garbage Rivers

Mar 14 Why Wander: A Video on Why I Venture Out

Mar 1 Late Night Letter: Jack Gilbert Lived Poetry

Feb 19 The Art of the 21st Century Road Trip

Jan 30 Late Night Letter: How You Do What You Do and Meeting People Where They Are

Jan 30 Released Today: A Guide to Raising Lots of Money for Charity

Jan 15 To Travel or Not to Travel: A Response to the Most Common Question I Get

2018

Dec 31 Late Night Letter: A Year of Change and Insight

Dec 30 7 Things That Shaped Me in 2018

Dec 4 The Wonder of WONDER WANDER 2018 (A Highlight Reel)

Nov 30 Late Night Letter: The Dry River Bed of an Endless Thought Stream

Nov 20 My Mind-Blowing Inner Experience of a 10-Day Vipassana Meditation Course

Oct 16 Everything About WONDER WANDER 2018

Sep 6 Dropping the Blinders of Focus for a Moment

Jul 25 9 Tips for Losing Yourself in a National Park

May 31 Returning to the End of the Line

Apr 25 Now: The Only Place We'll Ever Be

Apr 12 How to Find a Free Rental Car for Your Next Road Trip

Mar 28 Two Years Ago I Stopped Watching TV (Here's What Happened and What I Learned)

Mar 21 WONDER WANDER 2018 - Info and Application Are Now Live!

Feb 27 10 Reasons I Remind Myself Daily that I'm Going to Die

Jan 30 A Profound, Perspective-Shifting Fifteen Minutes with Alan Watts

Jan 23 Everything About My Honda Element Camper Conversion

2017

Dec 21 How to Make Beautiful Blackout Window Shades for a Camper Van (or Honda Element)

Oct 25 Why You Need to Get Comfortable With Being Uncomfortable

Sep 14 My Experience Starting a Discussion Group and Why You Should Too

Aug 24 Six Things I Learned From Failing to Bring Together My Yellowstone Chautauqua

Aug 15 The Commonplace Book

Jul 18 An Interview With Leopold Huber: Founder of Hippohelp

Jul 13 Something So Huge We Can't Even See It

Jun 29 Push the Bounds of Your Human Experience

Jun 14 Your Darkness Defines Your Light

Jun 7 How to Break Through Outer Shell Conversation and Talk About Things that Matter

May 24 A Reminder to Pull Your Head Out of the Water and Look Around

May 12 How to Travel New Zealand on the Cheap

Apr 27 10 Steps to Take Back Your Life

Apr 5 Howling on the Lip of a Volcano

Mar 23 Now is the Perfect Time to Apply for An Epic Summer Job on CoolWorks

Mar 17 An Interview with a Real Life Yesman

Mar 8 The Mountain in the City

Mar 2 Grabbing the Reins While on the Road

Feb 21 Letting Go While on the Road

Feb 14 Fragile. Sublime. Moments.

Feb 8 How to Do What's Most Important to You Every Single Day

Feb 1 My 12 Favorite People and Websites on the Internet

Jan 25 Outbound

Jan 18 How to Feel More Alive and Less Numb

Jan 4 2016 in Review

2016

Dec 28 In Memory of an Astronaut

Dec 20 With Each Stroke of the Paddle

Dec 16 We're Not Beginning at the Beginning

Dec 7 In the History of Humanity Traveling Has Never Been So Easy

Nov 30 An Exercise in Overwhelming Possibility

Nov 22 You Have To Find Your Own Pot of Gold

Nov 16 Leaky Bucket Economics

Nov 2 A Letter from Hunter S. Thompson on Choice and Meaning

Oct 26 The Time I Was Caught Sleeping In My Car and Some Thoughts on Cultural Pressure

Oct 12 Seeing What's Common from an Uncommon Angle

Oct 5 Embracing Possibility and an Epic Trek Through the Alaskan Wilderness

Sep 28 “How Did I Get Here?” Moments

Sep 20 The Beauty and Benefits of Simplicity

Sep 14 The Most Beautiful Sunrise of My Life

Sep 7 Viktor Frankl on Idealism and Why You Should Aim Higher Than You Can Reach

Aug 24 Handstands and Discarding Limiting Beliefs

Aug 16 10 Rules for Insanely Cheap Travel

Aug 2 Why I Started The Living Theory

Jun 29 What to Discuss With a Work Trade Host Before You Go

Jun 2 Crossing Paths With My Ghost

May 24 Come Work With Me Just Outside of Yellowstone This Summer!

May 18 Breathtaking Moments and Our Incessant Need to Capture Them

May 11 Half a Backflip and the Power of Visualization

Apr 27 The Overview Effect

Apr 20 How to Stop Time From Accelerating And Turn A Hundred Years Into A Thousand

Mar 28 Why You Should Stop Watching So Much TV and Be More Like Bruce Dickinson

Mar 22 Does Travel Make You More Employable?

Mar 8 I Didn't Write an Article Worth Posting This Week

Mar 2 4 Life Changing-Lessons I Learned After Having A Stroke At Sixteen

Feb 22 Backing into the Future: The Simple Reason Ancient Greeks Valued the Present More Than Us

Feb 15 Three Stunning Videos That Inspire Exploration and Adventure

Feb 9 How to Use the Most Powerful Moment in a Movie to Do Something Amazing

Feb 3 Five Tips For Vanquishing Your Most Important Work

Jan 27 Why the Great Outdoors Are Actually Great

Jan 20 Triumphing Over Our Lazy Disposition

Jan 13 A Message From The Void

Jan 6 Reflecting on the Year Past and Glancing at the Map

2015

Dec 30 How to Use the Thought of Death to Your Advantage

Dec 16 Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address

Dec 7 Should We Set Goals, and If So, How?

Dec 1 The Art of Failure

Nov 27 Time Between Four Walls

Nov 15 How to Earn Credit Card Bonuses With Manufactured Spending

Nov 10 The Excitement and Freshness of Breaking From Routine

Oct 31 What to Pack: WWOOFing Hawaii

Oct 30 How I Spent 72 Days in Hawaii For Less Than the Cost of a Plane Ticket

Oct 27 How to Fly for Free with Credit Card Airline Mile Bonuses

Oct 25 The Post I Didn't Release for 604 Days

Oct 21 Don't be a Non-Conformist, Be an Unconformist

Oct 13 How to Apply a Book to Your Life

Oct 11 Interview: My Grandma's Skydiving Experience at 84 Years Old

Oct 7 Steve Jobs on Changing the World

Oct 4 The Question That Almost Kept Me From Starting This Website

Oct 2 WWOOFing Hawaii: 72 Days in Paradise

Sep 23 Adventure Fundraising

Sep 8 Tips for Backpacking the John Muir Trail

Sep 6 Pedaling with Purpose Across the USA

Sep 6 Getting Hired by American Cruise Lines

Sep 6 Life as a Deckhand for American Cruise Lines

Sep 3 Summit Diabetes: 221 Miles on the John Muir Trail

Sep 3 Bicycle Touring Gear List

Sep 3 The Living Theory

Sep 3 How to Win Your First Half Marathon

Sep 3 Why? vs. Why Not?

Sep 3 20 Reasons to Bike Across The United States

Sep 3 Three of My Favorite Articles on the Internet

Sep 3 Why I Love "Barefoot" Running

Sep 3 How to Conquer the World

Sep 3 How Your Body Language Affects Your Mind

Sep 3 7 Things I'm Striving to Improve At

Sep 3 Follow Through on Your Moments of Brilliance

Sep 3 Alan Watts: What Do You Desire?