§The Field Guide · in progress
A working field guide to everything underneath the practice — how to read land, how to measure what a place does to a body, and how to build a life that feeds and mends the people in it. Written in public, chapter by chapter, from the same notebook the work comes out of.
This isn't a memoir or a manual — it's the argument and the method, set down properly. Part naturalist field guide, part builder's notebook, part the case for why nature is the source and not the scenery. I'm releasing it as I write it, so the people following the work can read it before it's bound.
What's inside
A working table of contents. TODO(Dorian): reorder, rename, and fill these from your diaries — each becomes a chapter page when ready.
The premise, stated plainly — the body as a piece of nature, and what running outside spec costs.
Water, soil, sun, slope, history — how to read a site before a line gets drawn.
The instrument — five dimensions, how to measure them, and how to design toward the baseline.
The backyard as pantry and medicine cabinet; making your own inputs; sourcing it home.
Music from live organic source — the same instinct in a different material.
Where it started, and why the whole practice is a way back to it.
Read it as it's written
No spam, no funnel — just the guide, sent as the chapters are finished. Early readers shape it.