In the quiet moments of reflection, a question often lingers in my mind: “How much is life worth? How much are we worth? How much are they worth?” The currency of this existential market is not gold or silver; it is time and attention. It’s a currency that will always feel scarce, yet even a…
Tag: intimacy
Being Patient, Not Passive: Integrity and Intimacy
Patience, often perceived as a passive virtue, is a profound and active agent in the cultivation of integrity and intimacy. It is a concept that has been discussed extensively in both secular and religious contexts, and its value is deeply ingrained in the human experience. The essay that follows will explore the role of patience…
When I Write About Life
Moving toward a more full-time role in writing has given me the opportunity to learn how successful both writing in community and from conversation can truly be. For four weeks I’ve been writing among creative peers, learning to develop better disciplines and skills for publishing. In that time I’ve learned more about myself and how…
My Writing Demise | Looking at the Mystical Part of Expression
I write about living well. Well, I write about living. Life often isn’t well. Life is often not worth living well. No matter how I parse this, the truth is that I am unable to find consistency in self-expression without some internal/external power pulling or pushing me against the tides of my own chaos. Reflection…
tl;dr A Problem for our Personhood
In a world of verbosity and noise, it appears that the best part of too much is to take in less. “Too Long; Didn’t Read” This isn’t a good thing. It’s a symptom of overload. Don’t get me wrong. We have to be discriminating in our absorption of information or we will waste a large…
Some Tips on Talking
VERBOSE – see also James Tippins. I like to talk with the right people about the right things. I love to make people laugh and feel at home. And I absolutely love to teach people things that they want to learn for their benefit. Each of these passions requires communicating. Whether through speaking or writing,…
The Brilliance of Screaming
Grace. The name of our second daughter. She is a certified genius. Because of her older sister, Grace didn’t get the chance to walk or talk until she was at least eighteen months old. For the most part, even now, Grace is a quiet, creative, and amazing person with a heart bigger than the cosmos….
A New Boldness
We really are blind to how we are programmed at times. I think if we blinked off and on like a VCR after a power outage we’d have a bit more interest in analyzing our thinking. Some of you are saying, “What’s a VCR?” It’s the foundation of everything you have today relating to media…
To Bury a Friend
Death is a normal part of life. In my business, advocating for people in all walks of life, death is constant. The more people you know alive, the greater the rate of death in the end, Funerals, strangely enough, have been called my forte by those closest to me. I have always encouraged those closest…
Conversations with Everyone
People seem to talk to me above anyone else. It’s true. If 100 people are in a parking lot, people will see me, and walk past sixty more, just to ask me a question. Just the other day in the midst of a rain storm, I noticed when I crossed the parking lot that someone…