It takes much discipline and restraint to care for a person while allowing them to make their own choice. The easier thing is to enter into an argument, to try and outmaneuver the other.
Category Archives: 2024
Attachment & Authenticity
Over the last few months, I’ve become interested in the reality that we have two needs as humans which are very central: the need for attachment and the need for authenticity. I think most of our pain and what makes life so difficult is that one must often be sacrificed for the other. At theContinue reading “Attachment & Authenticity”
take away (this eclipse)
A simple song written the night after our friend Luke Hollinger passed away. — It’s so crowded, without you here / This empty room, and all my fear, I’m not afraid, that God’s not real / But that he saw you shaking, didn’t heal. And that he’ll be greeted by my friend you’ve taken, IContinue reading “take away (this eclipse)”
Life in Phoenix ’24
I am very excited for this new year. I’ve begun cataloging posts by year as well as by topic (see below), and it’s remarkable to realize I’ve been writing on this website for about 8 years. Most of what I write falls into the essays and articles category, and probably not enough goes in theContinue reading “Life in Phoenix ’24”