Culture
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In the Absence of Certainty
Photo by Roméo A. on Unsplash It always begins with something that seems simple. A book, or a story. A puzzle you think you can solve. I read Vellum the… Read more.
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Forged in Witness
Photo by Zuzana Kacerová on Unsplash He’d been asked the question a thousand times in a thousand years, but it still caught him off guard when the barista said it… Read more.
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The Sanity of Stars: On Madness, Creation, and the Price of Seeing
Photo by Alex on Unsplash Author’s Note The following introduction is a work of historical fiction, drawn from Van Gogh’s letters, medical records, and the recollections of those who knew… Read more.
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Ends and Means and the Soul Between
Photo by Ricardo Rocha on Unsplash My wife has a gift for focus that I’ve always admired. She decides what she wants, defines the steps, and then methodically walks through… Read more.
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To Feed the Fire
Photo by Perry Merrity II on Unsplash Dawn crept over the temple in a slow, deliberate unveiling. The air was thick with the scent of copal and iron. Smoke curled… Read more.
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The Moral Horizon
Photo by George Pagan III on Unsplash They do not feel the walls closing in. That is the trick of this new architecture. The trap isn’t built of stone or… Read more.
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Escapism: Portals, Prisons, and the Places Between
Photo by Tj Holowaychuk on Unsplash Author’s Note For the past few months, my life has followed a tight, looping rhythm: wake, work, eat with my wife, work again, escape… Read more.
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Responsibility Without Permission
Photo by Siddhant Kumar on Unsplash Author’s Note This piece was born from watching someone I love do something difficult and quietly brave. My wife never set out to lead… Read more.
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The Virtue of Rest
Photo by Carla Santiago on Unsplash High in the ash branches of Yggdrasil, Odin hung himself. Not by the hand of enemies, nor by the fall of fortune, but by… Read more.
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The Lives of Men
Photo by Lukas Rychvalsky on Unsplash Author’s Note Most of my writing looks outward — at culture, systems, leadership, and the broader arcs that shape how we live. This piece,… Read more.
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The Comfort of Lies
Photo by Christina Langford-Miller on Unsplash Author’s Note This isn’t a light read, and it wasn’t a light one to write. I didn’t set out to write about Plato. I… Read more.
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In Whose Service?
Photo by Kristina Flour on Unsplash Author’s Note This began as a question about an old god, and turned into something harder to leave behind. Silence is never just absence.… Read more.
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The Forgotten Roots of Labor Day
Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash Author’s Note When long weekends roll around, I try to take a moment to remember why the holiday exists at all. Labor Day is… Read more.
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When the Hands Let Go
Photo by Colin Lloyd on Unsplash Author’s Note This piece wasn’t written with distance. It was written with dirt under the nails and the weight of millennial disillusionment in the… Read more.
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The End of Permanence
Photo by Colton Duke on Unsplash Darkness. Not the kind that settles behind closed eyes, but something deeper—a velvet void, unshaped and infinite. He didn’t remember falling asleep. Or waking. Only the disorienting… Read more.
