There is a lot in life that draws us away, detracts us from presence in a moment, stealing focus from all we have into foolish for what we lack. The last few days, I have slowed down, played more football in backyard than I can remember, explored docks and mud shoals, rediscovered small […]
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KEEP WRITING
What’s the point in a story if we don’t believe it ourselves?
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ALIGNMENT
For three days, I have serviced, repaired, and immediately after watched a rotary disk mower-conditioner self-destruct. For three days, I read the manual, servicing all pieces shown, replacing all worn parts, aligned timing marks for disk rotations—all as the manuals instructed—and, on engaging and starting the mower once again, witnessed its immediate annihilation of […]
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THE PASSION
“But he was wounded for our iniquities, he was bruised for our sins: the chastisement of our peace was upon him, and by his bruises we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray, every one hath turned aside into his own way: and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of […]
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BANKS OF THE RAPPAHANNOCK
I did not know it then, but those would become some of my favorite days: spring in a southern town, reading and writing in the light of the world where war once raged but lives now in a quiet peace; where the end of a river runs over shallow rock shelves before spreading and […]
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WHAT IF
What if, instead of voicing frustrations free of filter, we did so with affinities? How different would life be if our greatest fear was not rejection of an offering but that the Good in another should live unwitnessed or acknowledged? How would our world be if we shared our higher sentiments without reserve and […]
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REFLECTION IN ASH
“The presence of the Lord implies liberty, the one follows the other; for the more intimately present the Lord is, the more free is man; that is, in proportion as he is in the love of good and truth he acts freely. Such is the nature of the Lord’s influx by means of angels. […]
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A DIGITAL LIFE
The world will not miss our digital presence. The existence of such presence is, itself, little more than distraction to the true act of living. In such engagement, we defer life in favor of fast, synthetic absorptions. We affix hopes of impression upon images and words posted for affect, stimulating mind and emotive […]
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MOMENT
The Universe is chaos—fire and emptiness, infinitely expanding into nothingness, or reversing and crashing in with equal speed toward self-destruction—and yet, there is an order and Wonder in it all. We can seek to explain the Universe’s reason as if knowledge of a mechanics gives meaning to the reason it is at all; […]
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CONNECTIONS
Connections: aren’t they what life is about—experiences, moments, depths shared with another? What is life absent meaningful engagement with the souls that surround us? Why are we struck differently by one than another? How do we learn if we do not seek, respond and act in affect to natural draws? Maybe the draw […]