​[Painting by Betsy McCall, now in the permanent collection at ModNomad Studio. This imagery and Betsy's social practice project, the Art Monastery, have been crucial to the development of ModNomad. To get back to the main site you can always click on our logo at the top of the page, or right here.] Since our societal and environmental breakdown went into overdrive in January 2017, I've been toddling toward some new way of being in this world. My organizing principle came fro

​The D​emocratic Party​'s power brokers and certain members of the liberal intelligentsia are fixated on and often proffer a certain line. Perhaps you've come across it in social or other media phrased similarly to this, but I encountered it again today in a FB post. I'm not sure that phrase has any specific and useful meaning anymore. It's become a form of shorthand, of lecture for a particular point of view of reality shared by a faction of party loyalists. Some might con