Recently, during an inpatient mental health stay—an experience I do not recommend—I was challenged to list my reasons for living. Among them, I wrote down experiencing the amazing world and seeing and feeling new things. These remain true. Most days, the world feels magical, enchanting, and full of sparks of wonder. That hasn’t changed, but something else has.

During that same stay, I found a book tucked among the usual legal procedurals and espionage novels: Solitude: A Return to the Self by Anthony Storr. The last few chapters described how great composers and creatives often have their lives divided into early, middle, and late periods. Their late periods, in particular, tend to bring a shift in priorities—a turning inward, a refinement of core values, a deeper resonance with what truly matters. Reading that, I recognized that I, too, am entering my own late period. And if I’m going to explore and experience this shift, I may as well make an offering of it.

That offering is Anomalous Auntie. Like my previous podcasts, Immediatism and Pointing Texts—linked here on the site—this will be a collection of essays and book chapters read aloud for anarchists. But this time, with a focus on the second half of life. A continuation, a new movement, a vantage point shaped by time.