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Notes on having a personal, poetic, practical, human website on the web today.

· Maui

A desk in the barn

I’m working on costgallery.com at my desk in the barn. It’s a bit surreal to be back on Maui (I haven’t lived here for 16 years). Many things have changed on Maui, and many things are just the same...

My desk in the barn, with this log on the screen ...
· Rotterdam

95 reasons for having your own website

A running list of reasons to have your own website in 2026.

  1. to write for oneself
  2. to post quietly
  3. to have a home on the open web
  4. to keep a record of the days
  5. to learn how the web works
See all the reasons →
Elliott's desk in the barn on Maui

Written by hand from Elliott's desk in the Kula barn

Here's a photo of my current workstation. In September I moved back to Maui (where I was born). I share this converted barn work space with my sister and mother, who also work a lot with their hands. Next to me sits 4 sewing machines and endless spools of thread.

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