Daniel, Daniel Quite Contrarial, How Does Your Garden Grow?
This struggle to pull order from the chaos is much harder than I expected. It's taking longer than it used to. I'm not as young and strong in the garden.
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I AM The Writer. I AM The One Who Writes
I sat in the dark the other night, sometime around 2:40. My fridge hummed a low Db, like a bass looking to start a quiet barbershop rendition of Baby Got Back. I sat in the dark because I couldn’t sleep.…
The Machine Says I Wrote This. You Still Have To Decide If It’s Any Good.
Flock cameras proved with 100% accuracy that Chrisanna Elser stole a package from a porch.
Flock got it 100% wrong.
I’m Sick Of The Online Performance. I’m Also The One Performing.
"We crave connection. Something real. Words that make us feel something—"
Oh, I was feeling something.
I Got My Defining Question Wrong In The Search For “My People”
The part I was almost too embarrassed to write: The people I’m looking for need what I bring. I don’t know why. And this probability, it scares the hell out of me. It also excites me. It's hard to tell the difference.
She Asked To Read My Writing…
I was at my local Starbucks, grabbing my usual breve latte with two pumps sugar-free vanilla. Julie is a barista and, I recently learned, goes to my church. She’s the wife of one of the men in my weekly men’s…
The Egg Doesn’t Care How Fast You Want To Go
I was at the end of a long and productive day. That fuzzy time before bed. When you’re too tired to “do” something productive but still awake from that too late in the afternoon coffee. So I was scrolling Instagram.…
It’s In The Doing…Sort Of
I’m learning the jazz standard “All Of Me” for the piano. Which is kinda hard with fingers built like Fred Flintstone’s toes. The process is clunky and often maddening. Sometimes it’s hard to tell if the splurky notes are my…
The 220,000 To 1 Perspective
‘On Experience’ revealed the perspective of a life lived. Questions, insights, and observations that only Montaigne could make. The experience of ‘On Experience’ was seeing and hearing the perspective of a man who lived over four hundred and fifty years…
Here I Are
Some weeks I’ll have it figured out. Most weeks I probably won’t. Either way, I’ll write it down. This is the first one. Sometimes I feel overwhelmed by failure. Wanting to break out into something new and creative and vital…