I Mostly Just Want to Capture This Cool Photo of Milo on the Bike
Last weekend Milo and I rode the Bike the Bluebonnets bike rally in Ferris, TX for the third time....
Degenerated Democracies
My Belarussian Neighbor...
Naming Things Is Hard, but on Rare Occasions the Robot Will Make Me Laugh a Little
I was writing some fiction for fun...
We May Become Smaller, Cravenly Fusing to the Soul-stunting Object of Our Desire
If we go on, without rest, we slowly become whittled down versions of ourselves. Uncreated. It may be that we even, slowly, shirk off our usness, de-creating the very dirt and breath that makes us human. Other things begin to happen, as well, our smiles are cut away as joy is deemed useless by our own cruel inner clicking accountants.
More Learning to Walk in the Dark Highlights
I finished Barbara Brown Taylor’s Learning to Walk in the Dark, which I quoted here. All the other passages I highlighted were from chapter 7, The Dark Night of the Soul…...
Escape the Apocalypse
Discovered a couple of older shows now streaming on Netflix and liked both for different reasons, despite their similar premises...
Those Fleeting Moments when the Waitress Asks You if You Want More Coffee
Social community is really important, and there seem to be fewer and fewer ways that we get it these days. Even those fleeting moments when the waitress asks you if you want more coffee...So many of our formerly routine social interactions have moved online or been automated away.
Beautiful Fidelities
You are in service to the world as it presents itself.
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What Would Moses Say to People Who Feel Free to Ask God for Good Weekend Weather
The God of Moses is holy, offering no seat belts or other safety features to those who wish to climb the mountain and enter the dark cloud of divine presence. Those who go assume all risk and give up all claim to reward.
Spring Break: A Basketball Audible
We were headed to Tennessee to visit my MIL when she and her husband both came down with covid...
Spells and Prayers of Distributed Localism
The general vibes of these post-hope times is the dissolution of techno-optimism, often expressed in a techno-nostalgia...and the experience of techno-theology mirror the religious
What's the Situation, and What Can I Do About It?
A must read: Despite the horrors, the laundry must be done; Despite the laundry, the horrors must be faced...
Václav Havel on Hope
I had breakfast with a mentor a couple of weeks ago. I hadn’t seen him in well over a year....
The Utility Is a Bug Not a Feature
those unbelievable people who can construct an identity without the use of online hot-takes
The Attention Economy Monetizes Our Fear of Boredom
...something we're seeing in grand scale with Elon Musk right now who [has], in a deep theological sense, fallen pray to deep wickedness, born of his absolutely compulsive desire for attention and diversion.
The Sense that Remaining Small or Finite Is Somehow a Moral Failure Misses the Whole Nature of Human Experience
You Don’t Have to Monetize The Things You Love...
The AI Predicted American Salvation
The AI was built by first-generation immigrants with Ferraris in the final years of gasoline, who believed destiny just an accumulation of unknown facts
Molli and Max in the Future Predicts the Future
I randomly started watching Molli and Max in the Future on the bald logistics baron’s video streaming service. It took three nights to find the time to finish it, but I really enjoyed it....