# The Sometimes Webjournal of Nathan Lee Green > Here be all manner and variety of imaginings, geekery, introspections, and behind-the-scenes wallowing—delivered monthly. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [HI, I’M NATE.](https://nathanleegreen.com/about.md) - I have been known to write, edit, and publish books of a fantastical-future nature, do a little graphical design here and there, and a try a bit of light demolition/renovation around the house. I was a full-time stay-at-home parent for 11 years. Other than writing about made-up people in made-up wo… - [Books](https://nathanleegreen.com/books.md) - GREYSUITS When a terrorist attack rocks a quiet outer-ring mining colony, Aera decides to leave her career and her world behind to follow in her parents’ footsteps and try to become a Greysuit, one of the most powerful—and illegal—super soldiers in the Coz. Attempting to stop the terrorists before… - [Colophon](https://nathanleegreen.com/colophon.md) - The tools I use to get the job done. - [Greysuits: Umberrica](https://nathanleegreen.com/download-umberrica.md) - Sign up for monthly(ish) email newsletters and get Greysuits: Umberrica FREE! - [Greysuits](https://nathanleegreen.com/greysuits.md) - Decades ago, Greysuit technology was banned across the Hundred Worlds. Now, as a dangerous terrorist organization attempts to develop their own army of Greysuit super soldiers, the fragile peace of those same worlds hangs in the balance. - [Made In Mass Logo](https://nathanleegreen.com/made-in-mass.md) - Proudly display that your website or product is MADE IN MASSACHUSETTS with this slick, copyright-free, (need I say, made in Massachusetts?) MADE IN MASS badge. This logo is published under a CC0 license and is completely free to use for any purpose whatsoever. You can download a zipped copy of the… - [OCSPLORA: The Creative Revolutionary's Handbook](https://nathanleegreen.com/ocsplora.md) - OCSPLORA has been a decade-plus long project now (begun in May, 2009) to which I have dedicated an unseemly amount of time and energy. The goal was and still is to share stories about creativity, adventure, and generosity, with the aim of encouraging and inspiring people who want those elements to… - [Welcome To The Newsletter](https://nathanleegreen.com/tid2zzos54ec778hr.md) - Thanks for signing up! I'm very happy you're here. Now to the good stuff... ## Posts - [The Exponential Power Of Slow And Steady Progress](https://nathanleegreen.com/69.md) - Greysuits turns 10, Top Gear/Grand Tour/Clarkson's Farm, Burning Man, neighborhood gatherings, Microsoft layoffs—it's all about consistency. - [GREYSUITS is FREE (through this weekend)](https://nathanleegreen.com/greysuits-10th-anniversary.md) - A 10th anniversary celebratory special announcement... with bonus behind-the-scenes artwork from the historical archives! - [A Robot's Writing My Solar-Dystopian Western](https://nathanleegreen.com/68.md) - Is co-writing a novel with AI cheating, or just what being an author looks like now? I'm still working it out. - [Indiana Rooster Magnificent](https://nathanleegreen.com/67.md) - It turns out, though, if you're not in Indianapolis as a tourist trying to pack fun into every moment of every day, but instead go as someone who likes hanging out in new places and taking long walks and seeing what's around, it's a great place to spend a week. - [Harpers Ferry John Brown Playlist](https://nathanleegreen.com/66.md) - "Everyone begins as a child by liking Weather. You learn the art of disliking it as you grow up." — C. S. Lewis - [Wild And Trashy](https://nathanleegreen.com/65.md) - In which the author discusses his growing obsession with the outdoors and all the trash he finds there, plus recent books, movies, and shows. - [Freaky Winter Grit, United States Of Windigo](https://nathanleegreen.com/64.md) - Some of the stuff I've been watching and thinking about lately, both sublimely shallow and unsettlingly heavy... and the deep peace at the end of all things. - [Outrunning January Blues](https://nathanleegreen.com/63.md) - Greysuits promo, winter doldrums, and straw hat pirates. - [End Of Year Deals + Youtube Progress](https://nathanleegreen.com/62.md) - First, I want to say thank you very much from the bottom, middle, and top of my heart for following along on my author journey. Second, if anyone has not read my SKYTRAILS series and wants to give it a go, I have two bits of news to help you out. - [Into The Holidays, Gently We Go](https://nathanleegreen.com/61.md) - My current vibe is relaxed, gentle, slow stories, because that’s what I've been veering toward lately. Also I’ve been posting audiobook chapters on YouTube. I’m trying this out as another way of pulling in potential readers/listeners/watchers for my books. - [paperback proofs patio](https://nathanleegreen.com/60.md) - I kept putting off last month's email because for a few weeks now I've been 'very close' to publishing paperback versions of the new trilogy. I'm going all out this time around... - [SKYTRAILS is Complete//Niagara Falls](https://nathanleegreen.com/59.md) - On August 3rd, I finished the audio and final edits for the third book in the SKYTRAILS trilogy, Return Of Spirits Lost. Then we went on vacation. - [Ebooks + Audiobooks (+ Bonus Stuff)](https://nathanleegreen.com/58.md) - It's a short one this month... quick updates and a bunch of links! - [Little Bits Of Progress On The Long And Winding Road](https://nathanleegreen.com/57.md) - The first SKYTRAILS book is live, the second one is up for pre-order, and I'm watching shows about robots, farms, and motorcycle adventures, oh my. - [(A) Quest Of Kindred Spirits](https://nathanleegreen.com/skytrails-quick-update-2.md) - A quick update on Spirits Of The Brinaatii... PLUS, title and cover reveal for SKYTRAILS book #2 - [Pre-Order Spirits Of The Brinaatii!](https://nathanleegreen.com/pre-order-spirits-of-the-brinaatii.md) - If you are able and interested, please help the book launch by pre-ordering Spirits Of The Brinaatii today. - [Covers, Blurbs, and LitRPGs](https://nathanleegreen.com/covers-blurbs-and-litrpgs.md) - 4-star book recommendations; News about the Skytrails launch next month (with a new blurb and cover). - [Revisions & Computers](https://nathanleegreen.com/55.md) - An Apple laptop love story, how I'm thinking about this forthcoming Skytrails book/series, and survey contest winners! - [So Nice That It Matters So Little](https://nathanleegreen.com/54.md) - Survey results and a quick aside on why I love loving something that is, at the end of the day, incredibly meaningless. - [Final Survey Dispatch](https://nathanleegreen.com/survey-dispatch-3.md) - This is your final friendly reminder about the Subscriber Survey recently sent to you by electronic mail services—ignore at your peril, Dear Citizen. (The REGIME is watching.) - [Survey Dispatch 2/3](https://nathanleegreen.com/survey-dispatch-2.md) - This is a friendly reminder from B.O.A.R.—your Beloved Overlord Authoritarian Regime—about the Subscriber Survey recently sent to you by electronic mail services. - [Help! My First Survey Ever...](https://nathanleegreen.com/53.md) - Welcome brave readers to mid-February and a special survey edition of this almost-prestigious newsletter! - [Loneliness](https://nathanleegreen.com/52.md) - Welcome to the January 2025 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To! #52 Welcome, Brave Reader, to a whole new year! It's going to be a good one, right? Maybe not good for everyone, everywhere, every day—that might be a little unrealistic given the current condition of the world we live in. But… - [Rugged—A Mid-Winter's Tale: Part One](https://nathanleegreen.com/51.md) - Welcome to the December 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To! Story time. #51 Welcome brave readers to another monthly installment of the NLG email-cast, this month with a decidedly fictional twist. While I recover from pneumonia and shingles (can't wait to see which flavor is next in m… - [Nobody Wants Slow Transformers Of The Forest](https://nathanleegreen.com/50.md) - Welcome to the November 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To! #50 Let's not talk politics, shall we? Wonderful. Last night, we celebrated a neighborhood Friendsgiving, which is a made-up holiday which I would have sworn was started or at least made popular by the show Friends, but I wou… - [Editing The Rings Of Hail Mary](https://nathanleegreen.com/49.md) - Welcome to the October 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #49 What I'm Into * The Rings Of Power Season 2 (Amazon Prime) I know this is probably a controversial opinion, but I really like this show. I was not extremely into the story during Season 1, but I really liked being back in M… - [Video Games And Big Life Changes Save Us All](https://nathanleegreen.com/48.md) - Welcome to the July 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To! #48 What I'm Into Reality Is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World by Jane McGonigal ...About how gamers are primed to change the world, how big social games can get people collaborating creatively ab… - [A Cradle Of Woodworks And Icebergs](https://nathanleegreen.com/47.md) - Welcome to the June 2024 edition of... What I'm My Friends Are Into, What I'm My Friends Are Up To! #47 Good morning Starshine, the earth says 'Hello!' Yep, it's been one of those months. I'm writing to you from a hotel in Florence, South Carolina. This is it, we're moving. Right now! As I type thi… - [Expanse-ive Dune Theater Seat Endings (of the Wind)](https://nathanleegreen.com/46.md) - Welcome to the May 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #46 What I'm Into * Nausicaä Of The Valley Of The Wind ...again I'm still journeying my way through this Miyazaki masterpiece. It's seven volumes long, and each one is the size of a typical graphic novel, so it's a giant work. I'm… - [Baltimore Climbing Techniques](https://nathanleegreen.com/45.md) - Welcome to the April 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #45 (Scroll to the bottom if you find my long-winded emails boring and tedious BUT enjoy new cover reveals for ten-year-old books.) On The Next Big Life Event "Oh-yeah, and I think I'll go to [Baltimore], they think I was [retire… - [Nausicaä of the Disneyland of the Joshua Trees](https://nathanleegreen.com/california-nausicaa.md) - Welcome to the March 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #44 What I'm Into AND What I'm Up To * Place: Southern California — where I'm writing this to you from! I'm at a nice-but-not-nice-enough-to-be-this-expensive hotel in the City of Angels, tired from a week of very full days trave… - [(A)theist Trust-Squid Making Friends](https://nathanleegreen.com/43.md) - Welcome to the February 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #43 Happy belated Valentine's Day and happy Lent everyone! I don't know if you can wish someone a happy Lent, but there must be some appropriate way to acknowledge the season of Lent to people who observe it.... Okay, I just l… - [YearEnd&Start Lego Review Parachute Yoga](https://nathanleegreen.com/42.md) - Welcome to the January 2024 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #42 On Decembers & Januaries I've come to terms with the fact December in any year is not a good time for me to try and be productive. The most productive thing I can do is stop trying to be productive and redirect the writing-… - [Usagi, Renew The West Vegas Azul](https://nathanleegreen.com/usagi-renew-west-vegas-azul.md) - Welcome to the November 2023 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #41 Hello friends and acquaintances! A few of you wrote back with your simple joys after the October email (once I was finally able to receive email again). Elizabeth replied: 'Sitting in sunshine. I lived in AZ for 34 years o… - [The Simple Joys Of An AhsokaLokiMarvelSnapLooseLeafTea5thBirthdayParty Small Life](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-simple-joys-of.md) - Welcome to the October 2023 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #40 Believe it or not, here in north central Florida the weather has taken a turn for the chilly. Chilly for us, anyway. You should see my kids on our morning bike rides to school. They look like arctic explorers. And I'm not m… - [Lincoln In The Last Foundation On The Western Front Of Bones](https://nathanleegreen.com/into39.md) - Welcome to the August 2023 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #39 Hello fellow humans and lovers of speculative fiction! Fresh off an epic, 3-week, once-in-a-lifetime-kind-of-trip to the U.K. with my wife and three kids (ages 4, 7, and 10 for those keeping score at home), I bring you the k… - [Stressing About Moving And Dying And Not Doing Enough](https://nathanleegreen.com/stressing-about-moving-and-dying-and-not-doing-enough.md) - I am stressed. Why am I stressed? Because, friends and readers, I am in for a season of change, and potentially quite a bit of it. There is a great chance we will be moving this year. And it will probably be a big move. A combination of two things have brought us to this point: the next obvious ste… - [Across The Severance-Honnold-Zelda-Verse](https://nathanleegreen.com/across-the-severance-honnold-zelda-verse.md) - Welcome to the June 2023 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #38 It's been a minute, fellow sapiens! Sometimes I put off writing these emails way too long because I get discouraged about this form of communication. It's so one-way. I'm a big fan of a good, long, sit-down conversation, where… - [The Story I Want To Tell With My Life](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-story-i-want-to-tell-with-my-life.md) - Welcome to the April 2023 edition of...‌‌‌‌ What I'm Pondering Deeply With High Hopes And Much Uncertainty‌‌‌‌ #37 I am currently reading a book called Hero On A Mission by Donald Miller, the same guy who wrote the bestsellers Blue Like Jazz and A Million Miles In A Thousand Years. Hero On A Missio… - [A Thought On Bad Christianity](https://nathanleegreen.com/a-metaphor-for-bad-christians.md) - #36 | Three Minute Thoughts My friend is beyond frustrated with Christianity. I told him I thought he was focusing too much on people who call themselves Christians and not enough on the person the religion is named for. I was thinking about the conversation later and came up with the following met… - [Ghost_Layer Is Out Now | ChatGPT & Midjourney A.I. Examples](https://nathanleegreen.com/fun-with-ai.md) - Welcome to the February 2023 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #35 What I'm Up To * Ghost_Layer is now available as a free ebook on all platforms and as an auto-narrated audiobook on Google Play. You have until February 14th to get the audiobook free with this code ( 13F7ZNHPS7X0X ) or th… - [Thoughts On The Last Jedi](https://nathanleegreen.com/thoughts-on-the-last-jedi.md) - I listened to an interview with Rian Johnson on the Smartless podcast a week ago. Then I got sick. - [Oregon Bookstacks Fiction-vs-Non](https://nathanleegreen.com/oregon-bookstacks-fiction-vs-non.md) - Welcome to the October 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #32 What I'm Up To Earlier this month, Wendy and I took a magical little trip to Oregon. She had a work thing for a few days in Central Oregon and I try to tag along on her work trips every chance I get, sometimes with the kids… - [Hu-RRR-icane](https://nathanleegreen.com/hurrricane.md) - Welcome to the September 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #31 I might not have time to send this out after today as Hurricane Ian is currently bearing down on Florida, so today suddenly seems like a good day to send a monthly email! I'm honestly not sure if these newsletters are sti… - [The Essential Transition To Elderhood](https://nathanleegreen.com/elderhood.md) - I recently watched three things that made me think one thing. The three things were The Unbearable Weight Of Massive Talent (new Nicolas Cage movie that defies explanation), 100 Foot Wave (documentary series about a big wave surfer), and Never-Ending Man: Hayao Miyazaki (documentary film about the… - [Effective Metaverse Light & Magic Altruism](https://nathanleegreen.com/effective-metaversal-light-magic-altruism.md) - Welcome to the August 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To #30 I'm sitting at a picnic table under a sunbrella on the patio outside our local gym. It's very hot out, 89 degrees but feels like 98 according to my weather app. Sitting still, staring at a laptop, I'm starting to sweat. It i… - [2022.07.05](https://nathanleegreen.com/2022-07-05.md) - Starbucks, Tuskawilla & Red Bug, 3:23pm Back in my old haunt, just like old times. I'm actually not in at all. I'm sitting outside. In July. In 93 degree heat, 54% humidity, with a 'feels like' temp of 104. But there are big clouds providing shade and a nice warm breeze, and somehow it's not terrib… - [Ch. 20—Cheap Gaming PCs—Disney Shows—Fall Guys](https://nathanleegreen.com/update29.md) - Welcome to the July 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Working On #29 Hi All It's the middle of summer and there is not a whole lot to report, except... it's hot. But if you're anywhere in the northern hemisphere you probably know that. Here in North Florida, I am alternatively surprised by… - [An MMORPG Summer](https://nathanleegreen.com/an-mmorpg-summer.md) - Welcome to the May (barely) 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Working On #28 What I'm up to: * I've been chipping away at Ghost_Layer, my serialized novel about a young guy (and his robostrich) trying to make his way in the digital world. Since the last email, I've published five (!!!) new… - [Lion-Tracking LoFi Bridgerton Boba Beforeigners (oh my!)](https://nathanleegreen.com/lion-tracking-lofi-bridgerton-boba-beforeigners.md) - Welcome to the April 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To Issue #27 What I'm up to... 1. Publishing Chapter 14 of my Ready-Player-One-esque novella, Ghost_Layer (on Kindle Vella) Between Spring Break and tax season, this past month has been almost a wash as far as writing/editing/publis… - [Drive To Survive—Murderbot Diaries—HermitCraft](https://nathanleegreen.com/update26.md) - Welcome to the March 2022 edition of... What I'm Into, What I'm Up To (WIIWIUT). - [Greysuits is FREE (again)](https://nathanleegreen.com/greysuits-is-free-again.md) - The Greysuits ebook is now free on all platforms! Click the link below to choose your preferred reading platform. Available now at your favorite digital store!Greysuits by Nathan Lee GreenUniversal Book Links Help You Find Books at Your Favorite Store! - [Welcome To The Roaring 20s (They Came In Like A Wrecking Ball)](https://nathanleegreen.com/welcome-to-the-roaring-20s.md) - Update: obviously, when I wrote that title in January, 2020, I had no idea what was right around the corner. Last month Wendy (my wife) got a promotion, which included a move to a thriving college town two hours north of us called Gainesville. We kind of knew what we were in for, but we didn't know… - [Baby Yoda—Cybertrucks—I'm Bringing Paperback](https://nathanleegreen.com/baby-yoda-cybertrucks-bringing-paperback.md) - I’m not super active on social media, which you will know if you follow me on any of my accounts. I don’t spend a lot of time perusing Twitter or Facebook or Reddit or Google News or Youtube or any of the other places my friends… - [Happy NaNoWriMo—State Of The Rough Draft—Pushups & Mustachios](https://nathanleegreen.com/happy-nanowrimo-state-of-the-rough-draft.md) - At the very end of last month, I finally wrapped up the rough draft of the novel I’ve been working on forever and ever. I put it to the side to let it rest for a while, like freshly kneaded dough (as Stephen King says to do), and opened a document called ‘Ghost Layer,’ a 2,000-ish-word beginning to… - [Where Would YOU Go For One Day?](https://nathanleegreen.com/where-would-you-go-for-one-day.md) - Once upon a time (last week), Frontier Airlines ran a crazy promotion where people with the last name Green or Greene could fly free... - [3 Years Ago—The Umbrella Academy—The Heartbeat Of Wounded Knee](https://nathanleegreen.com/3-years-ago-umbrella-academy-heartbeat-of-wounded-knee.md) - On July 7th, 2016—three years ago yesterday—I published Greysuits on Amazon. I had decided to make that date my deadline—the 7th day of the 7th month because Aerabel Sevens is the main character and I’m nothing if not cheesy—and I was working hard to go through a final round of edits to get it to a… - [Thunderstorms—Disney World—The Bobiverse](https://nathanleegreen.com/thunderstorms-disney-world-the-bobiverse.md) - As I write this, we in Central Florida are experiencing one of the first big thunderstorms of the season. I’m sitting on the porch so I don’t miss any of it. There was a summer I worked with my father-in-law at his auto body shop where it rained every single afternoon, right around 3pm, like clockw… - [MISO—Flash Fiction Entry](https://nathanleegreen.com/miso-flash-fiction-entry-2.md) - This was my second entry to a flash fiction writing contest last year. The first was called Finding Everen and it was a pretty happy steampunky kids-and-magic story. This one was a little darker, but still with a happy ending. I think the happy ending killed it though. Reading this story over again… - [Why am I not working on the Greysuits sequel?](https://nathanleegreen.com/why-am-i-not-working-on-the-greysuits-sequel.md) - I recently found out many of you who are new here probably found out about Greysuits from David VanDyke's newsletter. - [Flash Fiction—Bill Bryson—Prepping for Avengers: Endgame](https://nathanleegreen.com/flash-fiction-bill-bryson-prepping-for-avengers-endgame.md) - I’m writing to you from a small town cafe in North Carolina. Actually, I think I’m in Georgia, in a town called Blairsville. The population here in 2017 was 611, according to Wikipedia. Bullet Points * I posted a flash fiction story on my blog called Finding Everen. I wrote it last year as an entry… - [Finding Everen—Flash Fiction Entry](https://nathanleegreen.com/finding-everen-flash-fiction-contest-entry-1.md) - Last year I entered NYCMidnight’s Flash Fiction Contest. This was my first entry. The requirements for genre, setting, and featured object were Fantasy, A Bakery, and A Toy Dinosaur. I have revised it a little, mostly to add clarifying details which I couldn’t under the 1,000 word restriction in th… - [GREYSUITS Readers: What are you into right now?](https://nathanleegreen.com/greysuits-readers-what-are-you-into-right-now.md) - Beginning this year, I decided to make my book Greysuits free on as many platforms as I could get it on—Kobo, Barnes & Noble, Apple Books, Google Play, etc. - [Marriages Like Rockets](https://nathanleegreen.com/marriages-like-rockets.md) - Marriages like rockets Launched at distant planets Everything necessary To propagate new life, new families, whole new worlds Greater than the sum of its parts Spreading like waves Part of a hurtling cloud Other rockets, satellite souls, come and go Making kids now New lives joining in Rockets beco… - [How I Survived 30 Days With (Almost) No Digital Media](https://nathanleegreen.com/30-days-no-digital-media.md) - Today is the day after a month-long fast from all digital media, except… movies at the movie theater, music, email, and websites or apps needed to get work done (and, as it turned out, communal video games). I’ve always been slow to upgrade to new technology (unless it’s free), so it was not until… - [A Prayer For Parkland (In Response To Today's Episode Of The Daily)](https://nathanleegreen.com/a-prayer-for-parkland.md) - March 5th, 9:22am Starbucks, Tuskawilla & Red Bug Father, Please help everyone affected by the Parkland shooting—the kids who survived and their families, and the families of the ones who didn’t make it, and the shooter and his family and friends. Draw them close to you. Help them to recover and he… - [2017—Year In Review](https://nathanleegreen.com/2017-review.md) - Here we go… What did I accomplish this year? In terms of things I actually put out into the world, there was very little this year. * 2 podcast episodes * 4 blog posts * Website remodel: nathanleegreen.com * Website remodel: ocsplora.com * And possibly a short story, Umberrica, but that might have… - [The Immigrant Jesus Debate of December 18th](https://nathanleegreen.com/immigrantjesus.md) - I wasted a bunch of time on Twitter the other day. Shocking, I know. Sometimes I wish I could go back to the days when when my phone was so old and slow, I just didn’t bother with trying to do anything on it but call and text. Anyways, I was scrolling a bunch of tweets from lots of different people… - [4 Months Before Publication](https://nathanleegreen.com/4-months.md) - Let’s rewind the clock, back to March 11th, 2016, four months before I hit publish on Greysuits, for just a quick glimpse into my thought process at the time… (This is from a sort of prayer journal that I keep on Evernote and add to from time to time.) It’s 1:45pm on a Friday. I’m at the Natick lib… - [Belated Thoughts on the 2016 Election](https://nathanleegreen.com/2016-election-thoughts.md) - I’m so thankful I have friends and family all over the political spectrum, from one end to the other. The people I most enjoy spending time with are the ones who know they haven’t got it all figured out, who are insatiably curious and never stop asking questions, who are willing to shift perspectiv… - [The Big Move: Boston To Orlando](https://nathanleegreen.com/boston-to-orlando.md) - Werner Kunz, https://www.flickr.com/photos/werkunz/4608613719 In two days, our family is making the epic voyage from our home near Boston, Massachusetts (specifically, the town of Natick) to a new home near Orlando, Florida (specifically, the city of Winter Park). When we moved to Massachusetts in… - [Delivery](https://nathanleegreen.com/delivery.md) - Toppenhof was a peaceful town in North Vermont at the turn of the twenty ninth. Peaceful, but hard. Everyone got along or else they got shot. Those were the rules, sometimes unspoken, sometimes not. Veritable Brixton was a courier of sorts. People on the frontier needed things delivered and they’d… - [Story Start—'Tired Old Man'](https://nathanleegreen.com/story-starttired-old-man.md) - He walks alone through a small town on a bitter cold night in January. He marches slowly down the sidewalk, dragging one leg, pulling a luggage cart full of objects that look just as worn out and ready to die as he does. He wears a dingy wool cap over oily, lifeless, dirty blond and grey specked ha… - [Tribes & Villages: 2 Kinds of Community](https://nathanleegreen.com/tribes-and-villages.md) - In my head I divide community into two kinds. Tribes A tribe is a community of people who meet together regularly and share their lives with each other, but who are spread out across neighborhoods and towns. This isn’t a Seth Godin kind of tribe, which would involve people around the world connecte… - [Noteworthy Podcasts](https://nathanleegreen.com/noteworthy-podcasts.md) - A few people have asked lately which podcasts I like to listen to. Here are my three favorites. Discussions by Patrick Dodson (new podcasts every so often) – Patrick lives in New Zealand and works with YWAM. He speaks all over the world, mostly to twentysomething Christians trying to figure out wha… - [How do I know they're the right one?](https://nathanleegreen.com/how-do-i-know-theyre-the-right-one.md) - Oftentimes I think about advice that people should ask me for, but never do. These pleas for advisement, the ones they should ask me, I’ve always got really wise and life-changing answers for. The other advice questions, the ones they do ask me, I never really know how to answer. I just stand there… - [I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa](https://nathanleegreen.com/i-would-get-on-a-plane-for-ya-2.md) - Wendy, singing: I would take a grenade for yaaaaaa. I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa… Nate: What did you say? Wendy: I would get on a plane for ya? Nate: Nope. Wendy: Yeah. I would get on a plane for yaaaaaa… Nate: Nope. Wendy: Oh. I would walk through the rain for yaaaaaa… Nate: Nope. Wendy: No?… - [Photo Traced Postcard](https://nathanleegreen.com/photo-traced-postcard.md) - This is #2 in a series of New England illustrated postcards I’m working on. This comes from a really amazing photo we took at Cape Neddick Lighthouse in Maine. I just traced over the photo, first lines and then colors. - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/this-is-2-in-a-series-of-new-england-illustrated.md) - This is #2 in a series of New England illustrated postcards I’m working on. This comes from a really amazing photo we took at Cape Neddick Lighthouse in Maine. I just traced over the photo, first lines and then colors. - [Magazine Wars](https://nathanleegreen.com/magazine-wars.md) - Budget Travel, February 2011 and Afar, November/December 2010. - [The way I pray](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-way-i-pray.md) - Father in Heaven May you be honored for who you are By all people Of every language, culture, and religion May your Kingdom continue to invade this world And all of human activity May things happen the way you want them to Here, just like they do in Heaven Give us today what we need for today Forgi… - [I'm heeeeere, and I'm singiiiing...](https://nathanleegreen.com/im-heeeeere-and-im-singiiiing.md) - 2010: A Nate’s Odyssey * Grew a scruffy beard, then shaved it into a nice goatee * Took a trip to Vermont for a few days, including a day-trip to Montreal * Designed and published OCSPLORA Volume One (goal) * Used Kickstarter to promote and sell Vol. One to a whopping 22 people * Redesigned the log… - [Snow White vs. Sleeping Beauty](https://nathanleegreen.com/snow-white-vs-sleeping-beauty.md) - The other day I posted ‘Am I the only one who didn’t know Sleeping Beauty and Snow White are two different things?’ Andres did a great job of explaining the differences: Ahhh…. Well, Snow White ate an apple and went into a coma. Sleeping Beauty was just cursed. Snow White was presumed dead, Sleepin… - [The paradox of freedom](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-paradox-of-freedom.md) - Here’s the paradox: freedom kills creativity. Imagine this scenario. You hand a kid a #2 pencil and a blank sheet of 8.5 by 11 paper and you tell her to draw a bug. You’ve just severely restricted the amount of freedom she can take in the assignment. Pencil, paper, bug. But you do this with a hundr… - [Screwups, etc.](https://nathanleegreen.com/screwups-etc.md) - Do you ever feel like you screw up more consistently and more spectacularly than other people? Yeah, me neither. I was just wondering. So, last week I was working with my friend Cheech (real name, Ciro – it’s Italian) and he asked me to hitch up his trailer to his truck while he was brushing his te… - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/so-i-dont-know-how-to-even-begin-to-try-to.md) - [wpvideo 1aeA8cqG] So, I don’t know how to even begin to try to explain this. Let’s just say my friend Jason is pretty amazing, and also has a slightly disturbing sense of humor. He was able to take the pure, innocent (some might say beautiful) thing I made and do this to it. - [Aliens on christianity p.2](https://nathanleegreen.com/aliens-on-christianity-p2.md) - This post is part of a series. Here’s part one. Before they killed him he had been hanging out with a posse, like in the cowboy movies. What? No, they didn’t ride horses. Well, no they didn’t go around shooting people. No, no guns at all actually. Okay, maybe it wasn’t like the cowboy movies, but t… - [Joseph & Donkey, step by step](https://nathanleegreen.com/joseph-donkey-step-by-step.md) - Here’s a look at how I do illustration work. This is from ‘The Donkey Speaks’ by Dave Wilkins. It’s actually the only thing I’ve ever illustrated for someone else, and only the second thing I’ve really taken seriously, step by step, all the way through. This is the second step of the process, sketc… - [Aliens on christianity p.1](https://nathanleegreen.com/aliens-on-christianity-p1.md) - This post is part of a series. Here’s part two. Listen kids, says the little green alien. I’m going to tell you a story. There’s this planet I went to once called Earth. That’s the planet where I got those cool cowboy movies with the guns and horses. Remember? Yeah, I love Clint Eastwood too, but j… - [His & hers pocket money](https://nathanleegreen.com/his-hers-pocket-money.md) - Here’s the smartest financial decision Wendy and I ever made as a couple: A weekly allowance. I know, a weekly allowance is so I Love Lucy. Here’s how we do it. Every week we each get $40. Which is a lot. But it’s for all non-essentials. Eating out, clothes, music, books, going to the movies, choco… - [Vikings and Jellyfish: What I learned from The 13th Warrior](https://nathanleegreen.com/of-vikings-and-jellyfish-2.md) - In the movie The 13th Warrior an Arab named Ahmed, played by Antonio Banderas, ends up with a bunch of Vikings on a mission to save a village from some scary bear-men. At one point in the movie they give him a sword and he nearly drops it. He says ‘I cannot lift this.’ To which his Viking friend He… - [Of Vikings and jellyfish](https://nathanleegreen.com/of-vikings-and-jellyfish.md) - In the movie The 13th Warrior an Arab named Ahmed, played by Antonio Banderas, ends up with a bunch of Vikings on a mission to save a village from some scary bear-men. At one point in the movie they give him a sword and he nearly drops it. He says ‘I cannot lift this.’ To which his Viking friend He… - [On living simply](https://nathanleegreen.com/on-living-simply.md) - When it comes to living simply (aka: cheap as hell), I’m still a novice. I’ve got a lot to learn, but the main thing is to not want stuff and to not get trapped by stuff. People get used to a way of life that costs a lot to maintain. There’s cell phones, cable, new cars, big houses and lots and lot… - [Fortune favors the brave](https://nathanleegreen.com/fortune-favors-the-brave.md) - It’s very hard to succeed if you never even start. It wasn’t until I was 28 that I ever really started anything creative with the complete conviction I wouldn’t give up until I had accomplished it. Everything before that was a hobby. Looking down the long, winding road towards the end of a plan or… - [Of dogs and men](https://nathanleegreen.com/of-dogs-and-men.md) - The only interest men really have in feminism is how it affects them. I know that’s a blanket statement, but that’s okay because it’s true. My friend Kim emailed me a link to an article on Jezebel (because I’ve been interested in feminism lately) and it contained this quote: Why do so many women bl… - [He-man-she-woman-hater no more](https://nathanleegreen.com/he-man-she-woman-hater-no-more.md) - Can someone tell me about the application process to become a feminist? I wanna join. Is there a website? Also, I hear people talking about card-carrying feminists, so I wanna make sure I get a card too. Do those come with membership? Thanks for any help. On a somewhat related note, why is Starbuck… - [In the world I see](https://nathanleegreen.com/in-the-world-i-see.md) - ‘In the world I see – you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rockefeller Center. You’ll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You’ll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. And when you look down, you’ll see tiny figure… - [3 Kinds of Art](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-three-kinds-2.md) - I’ve got a theory there are three basic kinds of art: functional, impressionistic and storytelling. Storytelling art is easy. It’s art that tells a story, like film, animation, novels, comic books and plays. But it’s also the paintings, sculptures, poetry, songs and dances that are pieces of storie… - [The three kinds](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-three-kinds.md) - I’ve got a theory there are three basic kinds of art: functional, impressionistic and storytelling. Storytelling art is easy. It’s art that tells a story, like film, animation, novels, comic books and plays. But it’s also the paintings, sculptures, poetry, songs and dances that are pieces of storie… - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/sometimes-what-you-really-need-to-do-is-climb-a.md) - Sometimes what you really need to do is climb a nearby hill early in the morning and look out across your little piece of the world and realize just how small you really are. - [Tree tells a story](https://nathanleegreen.com/tree-tells-a-story.md) - Let me show you what I’ve seen and learned from a tree The trunk displays imperfections Highlighted now for all to see They’ll continue to be there for the life of this tree Tree tells a story both beautiful and good though it looks tainted, see the truth in the wood in branches and leaves and seed… - [Thank you](https://nathanleegreen.com/thank-you.md) - It takes courage to start something new A lot of discipline to follow it through And the help of some really good people To make it all come true That’s my sappy love poem to you and you and you: Rich, Geoff, Angee, Autumn, Matt, Josh & Shanna, Chris, Darius, Val, Ben & Callie, Jake, Jenn, Jaimie,… - [The high cost of unity](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-high-cost-of-unity.md) - When two or more parties with a common stake in something disagree, one of four things will happen. 1. A leader will make a decision that everyone else chooses to live with. 2. The minority party will walk away to do their own thing. 3. The parties will fight until one side surrenders, leaves or di… - ['Suits'](https://nathanleegreen.com/suits.md) - “Welcome aboard, Scout Murkoni.” Large doors slid open with a barely audible sigh. The voice belonged to a young, small-framed man in a dark uniform who smiled politely and bowed. “You will want to see the commander, no doubt.” “Yes, is he here?” asked Murkoni. He heard the exhaustion in his own vo… - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/i-did-this-because-of-a-facebook-forward-back-in.md) - I did this because of a Facebook forward back in April last year. Here are the rules: 1 – Go to Wikipedia. Hit “random”. The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band. 2 – Go to Quotations Page and select “random quotations”. The last four or five words of the very last quote… - [Artists cultivate community](https://nathanleegreen.com/artists-cultivate-community.md) - – or at least a stronger sense of it. I’ve heard stuff like this before, but it wasn’t until our trip to Vermont a month ago I saw the real truth of it. Vermont’s pretty cool. I’ve never been somewhere that’s both country and hippy at the same time, redneck and beatnik, and somewhere in between too… - [The kidnapping](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-kidnapping.md) - One day, two of my best friends, Frank and Brian, decided to wake up early, come to my house, kidnap me and go to the beach. I can’t remember what happened when they got to the house, but something went wrong. I used to live in a room on the side of Mom and Dad’s garage. Either the door was locked… - [A day in the life](https://nathanleegreen.com/a-day-in-the-life.md) - Here’s a look at a normal day in my life right now. I don’t know why anyone would be interested, but hey, what else am I gonna write about? Wake up at 4:30, leave home at 5:15 with 1st breakfast in hand, get to Bodacious Bagels at 5:30, load up bagels and out the door around 5:45, make drops at Cof… - [The New Colossus](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-new-colossus.md) - Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand Glows world-wide welcome; her mild eye… - [Wondering why](https://nathanleegreen.com/wondering-why.md) - Wondering why the time flies by While looking forward to something better Trudging through present nothing Waiting, waiting, wasting everything I am and want and have and hope for Why am I still my own worst enemy Telling myself it’s best this way ‘It builds character,’ I say It must not be my time… - [BlackNova Traders](https://nathanleegreen.com/blacknova-traders.md) - It doesn’t really make sense that an unfinished, buggy, almost entirely text-based and out-dated web game could pull my friends in so quickly and completely in this day of Mafia Wars and FarmTown, but it has. A couple times. BlackNova Traders is an open-source turn-based browser game that has someh… - [The art of cursing in 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-art-of-cursing-in-for-whom-the-bell-tolls.md) - ‘Listen,’ he put the lighter down and stood holding his rifle. ‘Tell me this. Is it true about the bridge?’ ‘What about the bridge?’ ‘That we blow up an obscene bridge and then have to obescenely well obscenity ourselves off out of these mountains?’ … ‘Go to the unprintable,’ Augustin said. ‘And un… - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/a-rising-tide-floats-all-boats.md) - A rising tide floats all boats Unknown - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/52-2.md) - [29 years down...](https://nathanleegreen.com/29-years-down.md) - …91 to go. No kids, no house, no career. And I couldn’t be happier. Not to say I’m not interested in those things, but, you know. Everything in it’s time. If not for the grace of God, it could have easily been a really sad-looking, boring life so far. But thanks to him and despite every attempt on… - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/communism-is-absolutely-beautiful-when-its.md) - Communism is absolutely beautiful… when it’s voluntary. - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/who-you-are-sets-your-heading-your-priorities.md) - Who you are sets your heading. Your priorities plot your course. Goals mark out the ports of call. But the wind… The wind can change it all. - [Things brothers talk about](https://nathanleegreen.com/things-brothers-talk-about.md) - Jeremy: well if the world is really ending as we know it would be good to own some mountain land like Red Dawn. Nate: if it’s in the mountains, it might be the only part of the eastern half of america that does exist. then we’d be like warlords and we could fight people away from our island on jets… - [(no title)](https://nathanleegreen.com/our-parents-they-want-the-best-of-stuff-for-us.md) - Our parents, they want the best of stuff for us. But right now, they got to do what’s right for them. Because it’s their time. Their time! Up there! Down here, it’s our time. It’s our time down here. Mikey, The Goonies - [Re:think.ing_ Scatterseed (again)](https://nathanleegreen.com/rethinking-scatterseed-again.md) - Every few weeks now I feel like I go through this process of feeling completely overwhelmed and confused about what I’m trying to do with Scatterseed, then praying and thinking a lot about it, then coming to some new understanding or realization that takes the whole idea one step forward. The past… - [Irrelevant Or Extra-relevant?](https://nathanleegreen.com/irrelevant-or-extra-relevant.md) - There are parts of the bible that we Christians like to ignore and classify as irrelevant. Parts that talk about boiling a young goat in its mother’s milk. And a lot of stuff about being unclean. A. J. Jacobs talks about this stuff quite a bit in The Year of Living Biblically. The thing is, while I… - [Patrick Dodson](https://nathanleegreen.com/patrick-dodson.md) - Update (June 2020): I owe Patrick a huge debt of gratitude. His voice was a near constant companion during an era of my life when I spent a lot of time driving for work and went through some big, slow shifts in my thinking and perspective on life and God and creativity and work and family and all o… - [Matthew 6.19-21 Remix](https://nathanleegreen.com/matthew-619-21-remix.md) - Don’t save up all your money here in this world, where stock markets can crash overnight, the value of currency fluctuates from one day to the next, and investment brokers don’t get arrested until after they’ve spent your money. Instead, save up treasure in the Great Beyond, where there is no stock… - [What Is Church?](https://nathanleegreen.com/what-is-church.md) - Update (June 2020): Some of these old posts make me cringe a little. It’s not even that I don’t agree with my past self, it’s just the way I presented my thoughts I guess. This morning, I was thinking about one of my friends who is trying to decide with his family which church to be a part of. For… - [Constraints Focus Creativity](https://nathanleegreen.com/constraints-focus-creativity.md) - [Limitation Breeds Innovation](https://nathanleegreen.com/limitation-breeds-innovation.md) - [Speaking Of America](https://nathanleegreen.com/speaking-of-america.md) - Update (June 2020): This was written eleven years ago and my thoughts have certainly changed on a few things. I would still prioritize the national debt and small business, but my take on abortion would be more about helping women and couples in a situation where they are contemplating abortion to… - [www.newamerica](https://nathanleegreen.com/www-newamerica.md) - I think the world wide web is kind of like colonial America was in it’s prime. In the New World everyone had a chance for a better life. Just about anyone could set up shop somewhere and start selling some kind of product or service. There weren’t a lot of rules and there weren’t a lot of taxes. Mo… - [The Old Home's Better When You're In The New](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-old-homes-better.md) - I’ve never been too quiet about my dislike of Orlando and the Central Florida area. Ever since I’ve realized it was possible, I’ve wanted to leave it. But over the last few years my long-time hometown and I have made our peace with one another. Here are a few things I’ve learned to love about her.… - [New Favorite Tea](https://nathanleegreen.com/mighty-leaf.md) - I’m no connoisseur (tea-wise or otherwise), but I’m pretty sure Mighty Leaf tea has to be the top dog of the tea-drinking world. I’ve never really noticed much difference between good tea and cheap tea before, but this stuff is like sipping on a little bit of heaven. - [Jerusalem](https://nathanleegreen.com/opposite-wailing-wall.md) - [The Digital Tower](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-digital-tower.md) - How much does the ancient tower of Babel have in common with our modern day world wide web? According to that ancient story, everyone in the world spoke the same language. They were building a tower together and God realized there was nothing they wouldn’t be capable of doing. He caused them to spe… - [in Just—](https://nathanleegreen.com/in-just.md) - “in Just- spring when the world is mud- luscious the little lame balloonman whistles far and wee and eddieandbill come running from marbles and piracies and it’s spring when the world is puddle-wonderful the queer old balloonman whistles far and wee and bettyandisbel come dancing from hop-scotch an… - [The Tourist And The Fisherman](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-tourist-and-the-fisherman.md) - An American tourist was at the pier of a small coastal Mexican village when a small boat with just one fisherman docked. Inside the small boat were several large yellowfin tuna. The tourist complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and asked how long it took to catch them. The Mexican rep… - [The Village](https://nathanleegreen.com/the-village-idea.md) - I am a strong believer in the exceeding value of intentional community, not just as an experiment or a short-term solution, but as a way of life. One of my dreams is to start a yurt village. I was also thinking about the reasons why an intentional village would be better than our modern-day alterna… - [A Scattered History](https://nathanleegreen.com/a-scattered-history.md) - So, here’s a brief history of Scatterseed so far: * The idea for a comic book based on the story of Gideon from Judges ch. 6 has been floating around my head since 2001 when I was shown and briefly told about The Red Star which I never actually read. * The idea for a magazine about people changing… - [Things I'm Into Right Now](https://nathanleegreen.com/things-im-into-right-now.md) - * Rocketo: Journey to the Hidden Sea by Frank Espinosa * The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss * Scott McCloud, author of Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics and Making Comics as well as Google’s comic about its new browser, Chrome * Google’s new browser, Chrome * Portal, the crazy innovative… - [Random Memory](https://nathanleegreen.com/random-memory.md) - I’m a little kid. I’m not sure how old, but little. Like maybe 5. I think it’s in Haiti, which means I’d have to be 5 or 6. We’re at the beach, the family. I don’t remember Dad or Jer around, but I’m sure they would have been. I’m playing on the beach, either in extremely shallow water or where the… - [Wanderlust](https://nathanleegreen.com/wanderlust.md) - I’m listening to Best American Travel Writing 2000 edited and introduced by Bill Bryson. It’s really good listening. Each story is about 15 to 20 minutes. It brings back memories of traveling. And a strong desire to go travel some more. It makes me not want to settle down, or at least only settle w… - [Swiss Milo](https://nathanleegreen.com/swiss-milo.md) - Today I mixed equal parts Swiss Miss milk chocolate flavored hot cocoa mix with Nestle Milo fortified chocolate flavored drink mix and the resulting hot mud was delicious. - [A Genesis](https://nathanleegreen.com/a-genesis.md) - I’m starting a blog. Here it is. 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