About

My name is Levi Pierpont. I am a writer, language learner, anti-imperialist veteran, and student.

From an early age, I was fascinated by religions and spirituality. While I was raised to see them as a means to an end, I now approach them as frameworks of understanding the world and paths of cultivating collective understanding and community. Personally, I am a religious naturalist Quaker, and my religious worldview has been influenced by Thiền Buddhist philosophy and practice. My personal religious practice involves an emphasis on invented ritual, congregational singing and prayers, and shared, “expectant silence.” I continue to explore various religious beliefs and practices with an open heart and a chronically skeptical mind.

Writing and language have been major interests throughout my life. I tried to write my first novel around the age of 11 or 12, started this blog when I was 13 or 14, and wrote a short portal fantasy novel from the time I was 15 until 17, although I eventually abandoned it during the second round of edits. The older I’ve gotten, the more I have gravitated to the format of the essay. My writing style is a mix between writing lots of rough-draft pages in a notebook, which is my interpretation of the practice Natalie Goldberg lays out in her writings, and writing a practically complete essay in one state of flow between the hours of 11pm and 6am. These days, a lot of my writing time and energy goes into university writing, which isn’t as exciting for the purposes of this blog.

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I began learning American Sign Language in college classes and I continue to learn more here and there. I began studying Filipino (Tagalog) in January of 2023 and have used it to fulfill the language requirement for the undergraduate degree I am currently working on, but I unfortunately don’t feel I consume enough media in it to maintain and develop my skills further, so if you have any book, movie, or TV recommendations, send them my way! If you are looking for a language tutor and would like to support my learning, find a tutor on Italki through this referral link.

Trigger/content warnings: self-harm, mass violence, death. In February of 2024, my life changed. I saw my friend die on international news, in protest of the US-Israeli genocide of Palestinians, and I did whatever I could do to make sure people understood his message and why he did it. It’s hard to think of a corner of my life that has not been affected by that moment. In August of 2024, I visited Palestine for a short time, and on my way back to the Jordanian border, I stopped in Jericho to visit a street that has been named after him. A picture from that day is below.

Please feel free to contact me through the form on the contact page.