Blessed and Bewildered: On the Beatitudes
The Beatitudes in Matthew 5 are among the most familiar verses in the New Testament. They are also, on close reading, among the strangest.
Continue reading → On Driving at Night
There is a particular kind of thinking that only seems to happen during long drives at night, and I have come to depend on it.
Continue reading →The Difference Between Vision and Daydreaming
Both start with imagining something that doesn't exist yet. The difference is in what happens next.
Continue reading →A Brief History of My Relationship With Technology
I have always been approximately eighteen months behind whatever the current thing is. I have made peace with this.
Continue reading →The First Week of January
A poem about the particular feeling of January — the blank-page quality of it, the cold, the hopeful and the apprehensive.
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