expeppermint

A public laboratory for hopeful ideas

Make the idea real enough for reality to answer.

Expeppermint is a growing collection of James Todd projects: curious questions made tangible, useful, and open to surprise.

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Why this exists

Ideas deserve somewhere to become real.

Some begin as a practice. Some become a site, a story, a tool, or a place. Expeppermint gives each one a public home, a useful next step, and enough room to discover what it wants to become.

“An experiment tests a hypothesis. An Expeppermint adds whimsy and long-term optimism.”

How an expeppermint comes alive

Give it shape. Let it breathe. Watch where it goes.

An idea becomes an expeppermint when it leaves imagination and meets the world—small enough to try, real enough to teach us something, and alive enough to become more than we planned.

Give it shape

Not every thought needs a project. The ones with heat, mischief, usefulness, or unreasonable persistence get a form the world can meet.

Let it breathe

A page. A practice. A gathering. A tool. A tiny system. Make it real, then give people and possibility room to enter.

Watch where it goes

Notice who cares, what helps, what changes, and what the idea becomes once it no longer belongs only to imagination.

Portrait of James Todd, photographed by Jeremy Cowart

Ideas deserve someplace to come alive. James is their internet Geppetto.

The sixth reveal

Edge of Impossible

What becomes possible when our tools and ways of working change? Read a short essay, then give one idea another look. The first five Expeppermints are open, and three more are still wrapped.

Six handmade project gifts are open: a winding path, a branching spiral, Nashville-inspired houses, a green house, a fluffy cat, and a pale opening through dark terrain. Three later gifts remain wrapped.
Reveals November 16

What if doing less opened more?

A small idea is still wrapped.

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Reveals November 23

What if the right experience came at the right time?

There is more to come.

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Reveals November 30

What if movement met you where you are?

This gift stays closed for now.

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Make room for the next useful surprise

More room to notice, test, build, and share.

If this way of moving through the world has helped you—or you simply want more of it to exist—share what you’d like to see next, or support James and the next expeppermint.

Share your thoughts →What are you curious about? Add your ideas in the launch-post comments on Ko-fi. An account is needed, but no purchase. Fuel one good thing →One-time and monthly support go directly through Ko-fi, with Stripe and PayPal available at checkout.