Unresolved (Again)
January 2, 2026
January arrives every year with the confidence of someone who has never met me before.....
Read MoreWhat I Owe to Future Me
January 1, 2026
I’ve started thinking about my decisions differently as I’ve gotten older.....
Read MoreStarting Points
December 31, 2025
I was talking with a friend about the framework behind Contours of Tomorrow.....
Read MoreThe Future, As Remembered
December 29, 2025
With the new year just a couple of days away, we’re right on schedule.....
Read MoreWhen Atlas Shrugs, Others Keep Building
December 20, 2025
A comment was made to me recently - offhand, not hostile.....
Read MoreRediscovering Ritual: Finding Meaning in Repetition, Reflection, and Connection
June 11, 2025
I was raised in a mainstream Protestant tradition.....
Read MoreOn Artificial Gods and Emergent Divinity
June 3, 2025
I’ll kick this one off with a warning.....
Read MoreThe Echo in Every Word
June 1, 2025
I’ve always loved words - not just their sounds, but their roots.....
Read MoreFootloose and the Sliding Scale of Sin
May 21, 2025
Remember the movie Footloose? The 1984 version, not the remake.....
Read MoreThe Moment That Slips
May 20, 2025
I think about doing the right thing - a lot more than people probably realize....
Read MoreThe Little Done Thing...love me some checklists
May 18, 2025
Here’s a confession: I’ve stared at my to-do list like it was written in ancient runes.....
Read MoreA Small Echo Forward
May 16, 2025
Sometimes, when I visit my father at the nursing home.....
Read MoreTiny Slices, Big Moves (When will I ever need calculus in real life?)
May 14, 2025
It might have something to do with the fact that I’m an engineer.....
Read MoreWhat I’d Say at Graduation (If They Handed Me the Mic)
May 13, 2025
It’s graduation season again. You can almost hear the folding chairs creaking....
Read MoreA Job Not Worth Doing
May 8, 2025
There’s an old saying that goes, “If a job is worth doing,....
Read MoreDeadline, Downbeat, Dinner Bell
May 6, 2025
I was listening to a journalist describe what it’s like to write a weekly column....
Read MoreThe Quiet Want: Belonging in an Unanchored Age
May 5, 2025
Have you ever felt that quiet ache - not for answers, exactly, but for others?...
Read MoreEchoes of Creation in Diverse Traditions
May 5, 2025
In the opening lines of many spiritual and philosophical traditions, the process of creation...
Read MoreThe Shape Around the Thing
April 20, 2025
We spend so much time focused on what fills a space - what we can name, build, measure. But sometimes, it’s the absence that matters most...
Read MoreEmergence – More Than the Sum
April 14, 2025
Some things don’t arrive all at once. They arise...
Read MorePerpective - it's Elementary
April 8, 2025
The other day I happened to be in my old elementary school building...
Read MoreMy Role in What Matters
May 2, 2025
When we talk about ideas like "emergent divinity" or...
Read MoreOn Persistence: Memory as Shelter
April 8, 2025
Lately, I’ve been thinking it might be helpful to use this space...
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