Reflections

  • Switching to Substack!

    Hello, everyone! For all who see this, I’m planning on shifting my blog over to Substack, which is a kind of social media for writers / blogging platform. WordPress (through which I created this website) has been a wonderful place to begin blogging, but I’ve been persuaded recently (mostly due to Substack’s versatility, popularity, and

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  • Can you hear the music?

    What would your life be like without music? By my definition, lifeless. Though maybe we should start with the fundamental question … what is music anyway? Music is usually defined in relation to sound. Look up the definition of music, and you’ll get this: “vocal or instrumental sounds (or both) combined in such a way

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  • The Winds of Eternity

    What does “having it all” mean to you? Is it attainable? To have, to keep. To hold, to cherish. What does it mean to have it all? All as in enough? All as in the world? All as in … more? Can we fathom its depths, ones we can’t see? Can we taste its fruit,

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  • Beyond Narrative

    Beyond Narrative

    Evading the temptation of judgement is tricky for human beings. Our intelligence prompts us to look for patterns, even when there are no patterns to begin with. It is another way of organizing the continuum. This is an amazing tool that we have developed over the millennia, examining the world and recognizing its continuities so

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  • Harnessing Fear

    Harnessing Fear

    I face fear everyday. It is my response to the angel and demon on each shoulder that propels me into a longing for the narrow road, that narrow path that burns through suffering like fire chasing a trail of gasoline. My fear—my suffering—is necessary for me to find purpose in life. I have demons in

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