How Your Brain Chooses Between Control and Love “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” — 2 Corinthians 12:9 I’ve spent my life feeling pulled in two directions. One voice drives me to name, plan, and secure: “Build your tower. Prove your worth.”…
THE DRAMA YOU’RE IN | THE SEPARATION | ACT I.3 The Algorithm of Exile and the Mercy of Scattering “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face…
“Where are you?” — Book of Genesis 3:9 I’m writing a book. Not just any book. The story. Call it An Odyssey, from antiquity to modernity. It began as a conversation between two parts of myself. One part spoke first. “I’m not very smart,” it said. “But I ask a…
THE DRAMA YOU’RE IN | THE SEPARATION | ACT I, Part 2.1 “I posted an offering from my heart. The algorithm returned an error. This is the oldest story we know.” —Wandering Truthweaver I write an essay. I work on it, shaping and reshaping it, pouring something I believe is…
THE DRAMA YOU’RE IN | THE SEPARATION | ACT I.1 “We do not see things as they are, we see them as we are.” — Anaïs Nin Imagine you are given the complete technical blueprint for Notre Dame Cathedral. For years, you study it. You memorize every dimension, every load-bearing…
How the Genesis Story Maps Our Cultural War—And How to Step Out of It “Did God really say, ‘You must not eat from any tree in the garden’?” — Genesis 3:1 A recent conversation between Dr. Iain McGilchrist and Carrie Gress, author of Something Wicked, piqued my interest. Its subject?…
“We have a tragic history of making tragic history, and then pretending it didn’t happen.” — James Howard Kunstler I’ve been reading Jim Kunstler’s World Made by Hand novels. For those who haven’t, they’re set in a not-too-distant future upstate New York after the total collapse of modern systems—peak oil,…
Consciousness, Love, and the Long Work of Becoming “Distance is the soul of beauty.” —Simone Weil Sometimes an idea arrives with such force it breaks the schedule. This is one of them. Consider this unscheduled writing a sign of right-brain connectivity—a sudden opening in the year’s final days that also…
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