Use the Whole Buffalo: How to Meet What Hurts Without Wasting the Pain
A practical, plain-language field guide for working with the mind you already have. It explores Trickster Mind and Buffalo Mind, meeting hard weather without adding unnecessary suffering, leaving better tracks, and remembering that no one is meant to carry every storm alone.
Use the Whole Buffalo is a book about attention and sufficiency — about learning to use the whole of an experience instead of skimming the easy parts and discarding the rest. It draws on years of teaching, walking, and writing field notes, and it's being built essay by essay right here.
How it's being written
I'm not writing this in private and then handing you a finished object. The pieces that will become the book are appearing in the writing archive as they're ready. Read them as they come. Argue with them. The book will be better for it.
When
When it's done. I'd rather give you something good than something punctual. If you'd like to know when it lands, the letter below is the way.
A letter, when the book lands.
The book is being written slowly. Leave your email and you'll hear when there's news — a chapter excerpt, a launch date, a way to hold a copy.
The essays are already here.
The book grows out of the writing archive. Start there, and you'll have read most of the book before it's a book.
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