On the Pause Between Texts
A quiet year-end reflection on reading as orientation rather than accumulation — and the pause between texts where meaning continues to unfold.
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Conversations
Notes
It Is Love Made Visible
From childhood, most of us learn to confuse adaptation with aptitude. We become reliable, useful, compliant — or rebellious, difficult, “the problem one” — and call it “who we are.” This essay is about the quieter truth underneath: the work that has always fitted our hands, the aptitudes that never left, and the small, honest steps back toward a life that feels like our own.
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Conversations
On Being Formed · A conversation with Adler
A quiet reflection on how life shapes us before we choose — and how leisure, pace, and attention form the kind of person we become.
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Texts I Carry
Texts I Carry — Dewey (Aptitude & Occupation)
Some texts arrive before we know why they matter.
This passage from John Dewey is one I’ve carried for years — returning whenever questions of work, aptitude, and meaning resurface.
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Notes
The Work That Fits: Returning to the Aptitudes We Lost Along the Way
From childhood, most of us learn to confuse adaptation with aptitude. We become reliable, useful, compliant — or rebellious, difficult, “the problem one” — and call it “who we are.” This essay is about the quieter truth underneath: the work that has always fitted our hands, the aptitudes that never left, and the small, honest steps back toward a life that feels like our own.
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Conversations
On Being Free
A quiet reflection on leisure, and the modern struggle to use our freedom well — what it asks of us as ordinary people living ordinary days.
Notes
The Hidden Curriculum
From the moment we arrive, we’re being shaped by blueprints we never consciously agreed to. This Notes from Becoming essay explores the hidden curriculum of our lives — what we absorbed without knowing, what it’s still teaching us, and how we begin to rewrite it, one small shift at a time.
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Conversations
On Being Human Adler
From a farm table in 2025, with Mortimer Adler’s Great Conversation on my lap, I’m asking what it means to be a successful human being now — beyond outcomes, performance, and profiles — and how far I’m willing to develop my own humanity.
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Quiet Archive
Soft Morning · Invisible Safety
Some mornings you feel it in your body before you can name it: the hard days have passed, for now, and the boundaries you set have actually held. The dogs remember, the guinea fowl stay calm, and something in you finally stops watching the edge and starts living again.
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Notes
On Becoming the Bow
A Notes from the Becoming essay on Kahil Gibran’s ‘On Children’ — what it’s taught me about control and becoming a steadier bow for those we love.
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