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Love’s Intuition
Posted on November 17, 2025 Leave a Comment
No one has to teach you. You already know how to do this. It’s natural. Intuitive. Automatic. And sometimes it gets out of control, revealing that things are more disordered in our lives than we would like to admit. Leave it to comedians to point it out. They’re at least merciful in their critiques. They make […]
Truly Happy: Rudolph, Augustine, and Our Misfit Hearts
Posted on December 21, 2021 3 Comments
As everyone knows, the day after Thanksgiving is when Christmas celebrations can begin in earnest. Most of us would permit the spinning of holiday records and purchasing one’s Christmas tree at this point. Though corporate America and malls start advertising Christmas around Halloween, after Thanksgiving we can all jump in with few qualms of conscience. […]
Ambition
Posted on March 27, 2021 Leave a Comment
This is a poem that I originally wrote in November 2019 as a companion to an article I had written for Rooted. I had recently finished reading Jamie Smith’s book On the Road with St. Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts and was particularly inspired by his chapter on ambition — how Augustine’s ambition […]
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