Self-Reflection
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The Things We Pretend to Be
Photo by freestocks on Unsplash The lantern is heavier than it looks. A candle burns inside a hollowed turnip, its flame dancing behind a crooked face carved into the stubborn… Read more.
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The Question Was Defective
Photo by Arthur Mazi on Unsplash Humanity has spent an extraordinary amount of time searching for the meaning of life. We have consulted prophets, philosophers, mystics, poets, and occasionally people… Read more.
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Disasters That Never Happened
Photo by Sergio García on Unsplash By the time the city began congratulating itself on another uneventful harvest, Cassandra had nearly forgotten about the fire. She had seen it weeks… Read more.
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The Price on Your Soul
Photo by Md. Hasanuzzaman Himel on Unsplash Anubis waits beside the scales. At least, that’s how we remember him. The dead arrive having already surrendered everything that once allowed them… Read more.
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The Lineage of Atlas
Photo by Olga Iacovlenco on Unsplash The war was already over when they brought Atlas before Zeus. There was little ceremony left in it. Ceremony belongs to uncertainty: to trials… Read more.
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The Instruction of Trees
Photo by Cassiano K. Wehr on Unsplash The first sword I ever trained with seriously was a katana. Not, perhaps, in the exact lineage someone might imagine from that sentence.… Read more.
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A Protocol for Disengagement
Photo by Souvent Su on Unsplash I have noticed that there is a point at which I become quiet. It is not usually the first point of disagreement, and it… Read more.
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Outrunning the Shadow
Photo by Martino Pietropoli on Unsplash The first thing you learn is how to stand, and that alone is harder than it sounds. Your feet sit at an angle you… Read more.
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Which One Yields
Photo by Joshua Kettle on Unsplash Author’s Note Last September I wrote down eight virtues and called it a return to form. I have been reading it again this week,… Read more.
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The Gap Between Desire and Appreciation
Photo by zero take on Unsplash There is a particular way you reverse a Lamborghini Countach. You open the door, sit up onto the sill, and look backward over the… Read more.
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Already Decided
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash It begins with someone who has not done anything wrong, not exactly. An analyst opens a session and runs a query. It is not malicious.… Read more.
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The Reaction Is a Draft
Photo by Thomas Grams on Unsplash I’ve been told, more than once, that I talk about how a thing works before I talk about how it feels. The observation isn’t… Read more.
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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.
