Personal Development
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The Path He Chose
Photo by Callum on Unsplash Author’s Note This is the third piece I have written about my father since he died. The first was the memorial. It was testimony; an… Read more.
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What He Gave Me
Photo by Yannick Pulver on Unsplash This is the second post. The first was the memorial; the public acknowledgment that he was gone. This one is different. This is what… Read more.
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The Same Drive – For My Father
Photo by Mike Labrum on Unsplash I hadn’t heard from him for a while, and he had been complaining about issues with his phone, but I never expected to find… Read more.
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Solvent
Photo by Efe Kekikciler on Unsplash Sometimes it begins the way it’s supposed to. A career built carefully, a wife, a house, children. The slow expansion of a life that… Read more.
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Written In Silver
Photo by Joey Nicotra on Unsplash People said Niccolò Paganini had made a deal with the devil, and they meant it literally. They said no human hands could move that… Read more.
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The Obligation You Can No Longer Meet
Photo by Luca Bravo on Unsplash There is a setting on my laptop that used to be something you actually configured. I remember configuring it, years ago, with a drop-down… Read more.
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When Ash Falls
Photo by Wolfgang Hasselmann on Unsplash Ash falls before you understand that it is ash. It arrives as something softer than it should be, settling along the shoulders, gathering in… Read more.
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Kakugo
Photo by Seiya Maeda on Unsplash Author’s Note There is a difference between understanding a principle and having lived inside its weight. Most of what I write about clarity, judgment,… Read more.
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Before the Moment Arrives
Photo by Chaz McGregor on Unsplash “He is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fucking will.” The line is delivered with a kind of reverence. Not admiration, exactly, but… Read more.
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The Piton in the Wall
Photo by boris misevic on Unsplash Most systems of exploration are built on things you rarely notice. A ledge that appears exactly where it’s needed. A handhold that feels almost… Read more.
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Calm is not Peace
Photo by Wolfgang Weiser on Unsplash It begins with a click. Not loud or dramatic. Decisive. A relay closes somewhere beneath the surface, and a low rotational thrum answers. One… Read more.
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The Hand Remains
Photo by Melchior Damu on Unsplash He was never the loudest of them. In a hall where thunder had a name and trickery wore a smile, Tyr did not compete… Read more.
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This Far. And No Further.
Photo by Stéphane Juban on Unsplash There are a lot of famous shields in the old stories. That should have been a warning. When a culture turns an object into… Read more.
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Clean Cuts: The Dark Mechanics of Integrity
Photo by Balázs Gábor on Unsplash To understand Niccolò Machiavelli, you have to begin with what he lost. Not his reputation; that came later, and louder. But his position inside… Read more.
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First, and Not at All
Photo by Aconitum on Unsplash The hall seemed like a room designed to convince you that the world had always been safe. It wasn’t safe like a fortress, in the… Read more.
