Sunday, August 23, 2026
The first baptism happens at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church. My family, long Catholic, continues the family tradition of dressing their newest member in a white, frilly gown and having a priest pour water over my head. This is a sign of entrance into the larger community of Catholics, and it’s the first step towards cleansing my soul from its original sin. I don’t remember this baptism, obviously, but I’m sure my family had a big party afterwards where there was beer and cake for everyone.
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Saturday, January 18, 2025
In the early 2010s when my wife and I started dating, we looked, lived, and consumed like hipsters, but claimed that we were, in fact, not hipsters. I only mention this fact because I am about to quote a line from Neutral Milk Hotel, and so I wanted to be sure that you know that I know it’s Millennial-hipster lame to do so, but I must. From the prophet, Jeff Mangum in the eponymous song, “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”:
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Sunday, January 12, 2025 →
Is anyone else using Henry Shukman’s The Way app for guided meditation? 🧘🏽♂️
Saturday, January 27, 2024
“The caravans had no food, yet food was dropping all about them. If someone had said Look, over here, they would have thought him insane. How can this happen. Am I dreaming? I walk up to the trees. I eat the fruit. I may as well believe.” Rumi, “Visions of Daquqi”
This morning, I read A Year With Rumi for the first time in a long time. It had been a while since I’ve read his poetry.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2023 →
🎙️I think 60 Songs That Explain the 90s is music journalism at its finest.
Wednesday, August 23, 2023 →
Recent Halloween decor finds incorporated into my office. A reminder of the joy of finding the cosmic in the commonplace (and vice-versa.)
Wednesday, August 23, 2023
I’ve had this blog for a little over three years now, but I have barely posted in it. I keep trying to convince myself that I need to have the perfect workflow set up, that this blog will be for x and the x always means a bazillion different things.
I overthink it and journal and write about it instead of just posting about it in here, which, truthfully, would make more sense.
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