All my writing, video, and creative work from over the years — most recent first.
2024
Dec 1 WONDER WANDER 2024 Video Montage
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