Going Alone

I’m tuning into the mark this morning. This happens sometimes, just like the hard days happen sometimes, when we duke it out through difficulty or glide like a bird on better days like today. Nothing is more sure than these cycles of up and down days; which, as Emerson said, tend to “resolve themselves to the average tendency.” There’s the true mark and goal: to lift that ”average tendency” by slight degrees into something better each year than the year before. Not happ

October 30, 2019 Dear Eric, Both joy and suffering can yield the same sweet harvest if we know how to winnow the chaff from the grain. For there is good grain in misfortune. A very sweet grain, quite wholesome to consume or to just acquire or possess, or to even see even, or to simply know that it might exist - that alone is sufficient sometimes to take in the harvest, the knowledge that misfortune may bear us good fruit. Oh, but what then could not be a blessing if all is an

September 11, 2019 Dear Eric, Nihilism's bad rap may stem from the idea's consequent necessity of doing something about it. As recognition that life has no apparent meaning comes with no ready answers whatsoever. We're left alone then to either stew in despair, or resolve to create meaning in spite of the fact. The former option is unattractive, while the latter option requires very much work. It's no wonder then that nihilism has such a bad name and reputation; for it is a d

August 17, 2019 Dear Eric, I made something since you became done. We never once spoke of this thing during our talks at college, as I think

Completing my formal study of the Bible.