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a little pea on a thread, floating through space
I was napping existentially, like Air’s Somewhere Between Waking and Sleeping. While I was waking, I was aware of my swollen tonsils and the dry canker soar deep between my bottom lip and gums. The sensation of pain was relegated to my head, which was like a pea floating through space. And while I was…
The Company Picnic No One Wanted
I taught 1 Thessalonians 2-3 today, covering Paul’s anguish due to the distance between him and the young believers he left in a hostile environment and after being run out of not one but two towns. In our Bible study, I emphasized the need to endure distance. Just as we endure distance between us and…
Autumnal Ambiguities: A Reflection on Endings and Beginnings
“The unfolding of the year” Time is never going backward. I’m 9 months deep into the year. I’m closer to the end than I am to the beginning. I’ve leaned into my gifts and my vices. The year is unraveling as it unfolds. “And now our season is here” It’s time isn’t it? It’s the…
Learning to Sing in My Late 30s
I had the moxy to sing but not the accuracy to sing. Singing was something that interested me, but publicly? It was hard enough to do privately—to lift my voice. Then, I tried karaoke sometime back in 2007. I have a baritone voice. It’s too high to be called low and too low to be…
Top Movies. 10 of Them.
I’ve been having a writer’s slide lately. It’s not like writer’s block, in which a writer can’t get going. It’s the kind of writing that can get started but flows out of control like momentum on black ice. So I’ll bite. I don’t have favorite movies or colors, songs, or even friends for that matter.…
Lost in, Lost to, Time, That I’ve Found
”Time After Time” is one of my favorite songs. When Cyndi Lauper’s voice fires up, all my masculinity disappears, and this human emerges, and he’s as lost in the fourth dimension as anyone else. Time might be one of my favorite words, not because it’s the most pretty word. It’s not even a word that’s…
July 13: A Reflection on Life, Society, and Political Turmoil
My wife and I were hanging out with a friend, J——, on July 13. He made country-style ribs, which are actually pork shoulder, which he claims is pork butt, which causes a facetious battle over the multiple meanings of the word butt. (It means shoulder.) His cousin is staying with him for the summer. It…
San Antonio’s Local Business Mascots Represent Big Plastic and Big Waste.
If you’re from San Antonio, you will reckon with two businesses: the local fast-food barbecue chain Bill Miller and the beloved, no-to-secret monopolistic grocery store H-E-B. Bill Miller is not good barbecue, but it’s great fast food. H-E-B is not good grocery, but it’s great retail. Their hold on San Antonio is not undeserved. These…
it’s hard to toil when you roil
In the post-pandemic era, I printed an 8.5×11 piece of paper that said leader x labor, read as “leader by labor.” The sign was a reminder that to be a leader, I must be ready to work, to toil. Keep your nose to the grindstone. Get to work, boy. I pinned the flyer above my…
The Ice Golem Loses His Cool
The heat brings upon unexpected battles, and the worst state of mind for a battle is a consciousness that denies the inevitability of war. Life is a struggle through adversaries. Progeny is a byproduct of destruction. Anyone who says otherwise has never acknowledged the underlying cruelty of a squirrel preventing the birth of a thousand…
Self-Absorption and Technological Chaos: A Reflection on Modern Capture Culture
It is a fallacy to believe that because technology is advancing, humans are advancing, too. It is perhaps an illusion to believe we are “moving forward,” as if advancement can be indicated, literally or figuratively, by technological advances. I was at a concert last weekend. Dan Deacon was playing. At many points in the show,…
Homelessness in the Noosphere: Data, Conjectures, and Apologetics
The noosphere is the human-made sphere of human knowledge. All the ideas of humanity live in this sphere, and if humans went extinct, so would the noosphere. Physical manifestations of the noosphere are libraries, text messages, satellites, ethernet cables, broadcast towers that rise like cowlicks. Homelessness in the noosphere is a complex and intriguing world.…
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