Remembered, not erased · not a book club
Reading Journey
Conversations
Conversations, not reviews. Old wisdom. Modern life.
Despite all our progress, the same questions keep returning. What is a good life? How do we stay honest, brave and kind, as we move through our beautiful, ordinary lives, with all their hidden pressures?
In Conversations. I sit with books — old and new — and let them argue with my real life: illness and work, love and responsibility, fatigue and hope. The great books are part of a long chain of writers reading and answering one another; this is where I take my seat in that conversation and ask what still holds, and how to live it now.
Come read with me — and take your seat in the conversation.
Conversations is just beginning. New essays will be added here on Wednesdays.
Until then, you’re welcome to wander the Quite Archive or start in Notes from Becoming.
Browse the conversations
Start wherever you feel drawn — each essay stands alone, but they’re all part of the same reading journey
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Why I Read · A Conversation
“I read because the real hunger under all our scrolling isn’t for something new, it’s for something true.”
This is where I begin the Reading Journey — holding old ideas up against a muddy, modern life to see what still holds.
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