Creative Flow (Futility Revisited)
I’ve just written over 800 words of stream-of-consciousness prose, and it will never see the light of day, thank you very much. Many people are concer…
Recovery
Seeking a Home in the Midst of Collapse
Every night, I get up at least twice in the night to bring meals to my partner. He is too disabled now to get his own food from the kitchen. We have a…
The Urgency-Sustainability Problem of Poverty
I spend a lot of my time explaining myself to people who don't know what it's like to be truly poor. In many ways, I myself do not know what i…
Prioritizing Recovery
It's been over seven weeks since I last blogged, and every day I feel guilty for it. While I know that the perfect is the enemy of the good, I oft…
Losing Grip on Eternity, Part 2: Heaven as an Excuse
This post was originally uploaded on July 28, 2015. It was re-uploaded as part of the archive restoration project. “Aren’t you sick of wasting so muc…
Losing grip on eternity: Part 1: Foundations and Questions
Content note (added January 2024): This post was originally posted on July 27, 2015. It contains a historical inaccuracy. The Quran was not written an…