Spirit and System
This reflection explores the tension between spirit and system, spark and cover. Through history, illness, corporate life, oral transmission, and seminary formation.
Category Awakening
Seeing through the illusion — works that reveal hidden systems, deconstruct performance, and open new sight.
You Don’t Get a Second Life
You don’t get a second life—you get the same life, seen clearly.
The tension isn’t between past and future, but between awareness and action.
Sound Before Echo
For most of my life, I tried to find myself in stories. Then something shifted. I stopped looking for my life in them—and started seeing them in me.
Three Facades. One Face.
Power moves in three ways—receiving, taking, and giving.
But what holds them reveals who we are.
How I Wonder
Wonder can open us—or keep us at a distance.
This reflection explores the difference between wonder as escape and wonder as encounter,
and how learning to tell the difference changes everything.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
This spark surfaced while I was serving as lector during worship, reading 1 Samuel 16:1–13 aloud.
The Weight of Seeing
Awakening often feels like a curse before it becomes wisdom. Ignorance can feel peaceful, knowledge can feel heavy, and only through acceptance do we learn how to live gently with what we see.
When All the World’s a Play
I’ve been thinking about performance anxiety lately—not as something to fix,
but as something to listen to.
Jesus: The Perfect Human
This is not a religious argument.
It’s a human one.
It’s about how we learned to live at scale,
what that cost us,
and the one human life that showed what we lost.
It’s also about how that life found me again.
Life’s Purpose Is Life
How a tattoo taught me systems, drift, and the beginning of my discernment.