I have an intuition, bare and brazen, but no affirmation, no garment of authority. Advertisements Continue reading →

Advent Music, Memory, and Thankfulness

(I may expand this in the future, but probably not). Arguably one of the most famous sections of his “Well-Tempered Clavier”, I’m listening to Bach’s “BWV 847: Fugue in C minor” today, this day of Thanksgiving. You could say it was made a hairline more well-known because of Rich Mullins’ use of it as an intro … Continue reading →

the un-named apple tree planet (in the works)

Suppose there was a star and ‘round it circled a planet called ___ ___. This rock is small and no bigger than our beloved moon, the stone that sings of love, as long as you view it from afar, as long as you never reach its grey and miry earth. But ___ ___ sings of … Continue reading →

old thoughts on Miyazaki – 2.20.17

Yesterday I saw Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind with some friends. This is the fourth one of his movies I’ve seen, in this my year of Miyazaki. I see why he has such a cult following. It’s like a Malick film. Magic and realism and ambiguity of good and evil. Mythical. Cosmic. He … Continue reading →

amino acid life raft – 2.6.17

A life-raft made of gossamer threads, threads made of amino chains, braided, just a hair thicker than your unbelief will allow. Undulating, it carries your body to the sunset, just a grafting of air, barely there, like a dragonfly skimming the surface, two-stepping and heedless of the holes it pokes in the water’s veneer, and … Continue reading →

plain text journals – 2.4.2017

I am cleaning my room today. Ask anyone who really knows me and they will tell you, not of my impartation, but from their own observation that the state of my room is a portrait of how my heart is behaving. Right now, I live in a purple, gabled coat closet. It is the size … Continue reading →

a moveable feast

“secura mens quasi iuge convivium est” — The secure mind is like a perpetual feast! “6 Now these things, brethren, I have figuratively transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that you may learn in us not to think beyond what is written, that none of you may be puffed up on behalf of one against … Continue reading →