Of Scars and Surprise

A poem of mine has now published at Veritas Journal, titled ‘An Answer to my Brother’s Phone Calls from Manhattan.’

My incredibly photogenic house that I am moving out of in August.

Many conversations that are allegedly about interesting subjects fail to actually be interesting.

Being embedded in a Wendell Berry-type, Plough Magazine-type, Christian community, I have heard a lot of discussion about AI.

The theatre has often been called a whore, meaning its art is impure, but today this is true in another sense—whores take the money and then go short on the pleasure.

Henri Matisse.

I made it a goal to read more in 2025, and by golly, with all of the endurance and planning and attention that I could muster, I think I read the same quantity of words (or perhaps a little less) as I did in 2024.

Imagine that you are a sincere (though absentminded) scientist in a forest-green lab coat.

Accompaniment and sincerity are two concepts that I've pillaged from very different sources.

When I read the book Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans five years ago, I took to heart the idea of bias to action.

Thinking is two things.

Cluny Journal Considering the Martyrs Considering the Martyrs… Read more 2 years ago · 24 likes · Scott Cairns This post is a response to the poem Considering the Martyrs by poet Scott Cairn, which you can read with the link above.

I finished a silent retreat, I have advice for everyone but myself!

Morning to noon to night, there was a sun I'm sure.

I have been working out this hunch for a little while now.

It has come to pass in the life of the author that two paths, as just as fair, have cut open.

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