Japan and what I already loved before I got there I flew into Tokyo and left from Kansai, and somewhere between those two cities I think I finally clo...
my thoughts_
smartest person in the room
25 Jun 2026Profilers are trained to read environments before they read people. Walk into a space and before you assess the individual, you assess the system. The...
matthew 25:40 and 1 john 4:20
13 Feb 2026Matthew 25:40 states: " And the King will answer them, ‘Truly, I say to you, as you did it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to me’...
on corruption: my first-hand experience
12 Feb 2026There is a pattern I have observed among those born into wealth: they tend toward one of two extremes. The first is insatiable hunger--money as scoreb...
analysis: loss of self
9 Feb 2026You've gotten so good at not letting things get to you. You've gotten so good at not reflecting, but detaching. Not in the way people mean when they s...
there is no audience. it's just you.
7 Feb 2026Staying Quiet A particular violence lives in learning to mistrust your own voice. The pre-verbal impulse, the unedited reaction, the specific texture ...
psalm 139: we can not be alone if we are seen
6 Feb 2026Psalm 139 There is a mathematics to intimacy. A geometry of attention. The psalmist understood this long before we had words for the terror and comfor...
small deaths (when it's time to go)
6 Feb 2026“How many different deaths I can die?” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath There is a particular grief in being too much for someo...
isaiah 55:8-9: knight and rebel (two-book analysis)
5 Feb 2026Isaiah 55:8-9 "For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways," declares the Lord. "As the heavens are higher than the earth, so...
the lover's erosion of self (two-book analysis)
5 Feb 2026“I’ve never written, though I thought I wrote, never loved, though I thought I loved, never done anything but wait outside the closed door.” – Marguer...