(Written December 28th, 2023) I write from the back of a packed Frontier flight carrying me from Midway Airport (Chicago) to Denver International. It’s early morning and I have a full Denver day ahead of me. I’ll see JT tonight and in two days will fly to Seattle to spend New Year’s with her sister […]
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A Memo On My Last Three Years
The last three years of my life have included a facet I never expected (or wanted, if God had felt like asking). It was terrifying then excruciating, daunting, mystifying, galvanizing, still terrifying, and has slowly and subtly given way to becoming one of the most significant parts of my life. I don’t anticipate that changing. […]
Continue readingGood and Evil (Musing)
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the natures of good and evil. First thought: I recently listened to Jonathan Haidt, author of The Righteous Mind and what I’m sure are other worthwhile works, talk about “moral pluralism” — his conclusion after studying morality anthropologically. While there doesn’t seem to be only one version of […]
Continue readingRain in the Distance (Musing)
Noticing today how rain in the distance appears so differently than I might have assumed if I thought about it. Rain up close – right above you, dampening or soaking you, tangible and near and audible – is readily discernible: countless drops, coordinated but separate. Rain can toy with you in breaths and waves, different […]
Continue readingThe Scariest of All? (Musing)
I drive past a funeral home on my way home from JT’s. This morning as I caught sight of its sign, the two names conjoined to make the business name made me think of the sorts of individuals that would start or run a funeral home. I hope they’re not prone to fear of the […]
Continue readingPlaying with Generative Image AI (Creating)
Hello everyone, One of my to-do’s today was to experiment with image-generating AI (Artificial Intelligence for those of us who have miraculously avoided that topic so far) to get some ideas for a webpage redesign. It didn’t work extremely well, so I’ll probably still have to use an old-fashioned noggin and pen and paper and […]
Continue readingOf Course Frankenstein Is an Allegory (Musing)
I never put it together until recently. If you’ve ever read the literary classic Frankenstein (as perhaps only weird homeschoolers are prone to do in their curriculums? No expectation if you haven’t haha), it’s the forlorn tale of an ambitious scientist, Victor Frankenstein. He attempts to manufacture new life in his lab and succeeds. The […]
Continue readingWhat Would Be Left? (Musing)
The other week I sat in a tastefully-decorated living room with a small group of earnest truth seekers discussing the nature of self. One of us asked what would be left if all of our identifying features were stripped away. Separate from experiences, memories, choices, personalities, knowledge – if all of those were stripped away […]
Continue readingTo Create Wholesale Change (Musing)
Thinking this morning about what it would take to restore and reverse the alarming, systemic, deeply-rooted tribalism and division we see all around us. It’s everywhere – in local communities, in families, in America, and in just about every part of the world. I’d love to know about times when our global community and human […]
Continue readingSpring 2023: Whirlwinds with End Dates
I write from an impossibly beautiful deck looking over an impossibly beautiful backyard pool, distracted by an impossibly beautiful mountain sunset to my right. I’m in Colorado, about ten minutes from where I currently call home. I’ve been dog-sitting this weekend and enjoying a weekend-away-from-home with JT and three of the biggest dogs I’ve ever […]
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