10/19/2026
Been thinking a lot about overconsumption and excess lately. Flying cars, exploration to mars, trillionaires and billionaires and the AI slop that fills up limited spaces where actual art and creativity used to reside. And I’m not innocent. I do lots of things in excess (especially regarding pizza and Indian food).
But, having spent last weekend with some of the people I love the very most in this world, I am once again reminded that it’s important for me (for all of us?) to keep asking ourselves “how much is enough?”
I think about Robin Wall Kimmerer’s metaphor about starving the Windigo, a ravenous and insatiable mythical creature popular in indigenous culture. The Windigo only takes. Only consumes. Always hungrier and never satisfied. It tricks us into believing we need more. Always.
Anyway, I think if we are to survive and thrive going forward, we need to find more ways to starve the Windigo. More connection. More people. More community. More care. More love. More vegetables.
“It is the Windigo way that tricks us into believing that belongings will fill our hunger, when it is belonging that we crave.”
-Robin Wall Kimmerer