Series – Virtues
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The Shape of Virtue
If you’re reading this on masqueradeandmadness.com… Photo by EVGENIY KONEV on Unsplash Author’s Note: This essay closes the Virtues series. The earlier entries named and explored the pillars—integrity, honesty, momentum,… Read more.
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The Space Between Knowing and Not: On Humility
Photo by Rod Long on Unsplash Author’s Note This piece continues the Virtues series—but for a while, I didn’t think I’d write it. Not because humility isn’t important, but because… Read more.
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Restraint – The Discipline of Not Using Power
Photo by Martin Sanchez on Unsplash Author’s Note This piece continues the Virtues series, but it’s also something more personal. Restraint isn’t just a philosophy I admire—it’s a value I… Read more.
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The Weight That Waits: On Compassion
Photo by Randy Rizo on Unsplash Author’s Note: If integrity is the spine, and honesty the fire, and momentum the stride—then compassion is the hand that doesn’t let go when… Read more.
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A Goddess Walks the Margins: On Justice
Author’s Note Of all the virtues I’ve tried to write through recently, justice is the one that doesn’t sit still. The others—integrity, truth, momentum, stewardship—let you take their measure, eventually.… Read more.
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On Stewardship: The Shade You’ll Never Sit Beneath
Author’s Note This piece continues the Virtues series, but it draws more directly from the undercurrent of work that began with Tending the Roots. If that essay asked how civilizations… Read more.
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The Worthy and the Weight: On Momentum
Author’s Note This piece continues the Virtues series, but with a quiet shift in focus. The first entries leaned on the familiar—Integrity, truth, honesty—virtues we’ve seen stitched into banners and… Read more.
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Promethean Flame, Hypatian Line: On Honesty
Author’s Note: Of all the gods, demons, and legends I’ve read, if I had the chance to shape the mold that made me, I’d carve it in the shape of… Read more.
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On Tyr, Diogenes, and the Shape of the Unbought Life
Author’s Note This post begins a new series—one that steps away from systems and toward the souls who navigate them. The “Tools” series traced the architecture of influence: money, myth,… Read more.
