Category: The Garden
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Someone Who’s Falling
A dream ended with a card: someone who’s falling doesn’t need to be told, they need to be caught. A talk from last Sunday, and a thought that keeps opening…
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Letter to Isaac: Forgive… Let It Go
A letter to Isaac on forgiveness. You don’t do it for the person who wronged you. You do it so resentment doesn’t take up permanent residence in you.
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Procrastination… Ten Years On
Ten years after writing about procrastination as a productivity problem, I’m starting to see it differently… less as laziness, more as a signal I need to notice sooner.
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Letter to Isaac: Strive… Keep Moving Forward
A letter to my son about the difference between hard work, striving, and big dreams. Why marginal gains matter, and why the itch to keep getting better is something worth…
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Be Fearless
I knew who was watching… and I knew some of them wouldn’t get it. For most of my life, faith wasn’t something I led with. But I’m starting to see…
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Letter to Isaac: Work Hard… Do Your Best
A letter to my son about what hard work actually means. Not grinding for its own sake… but showing up fully in the things that matter, including the ones that…
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The Enforced Brake – Covid Part 5
The hardest weeks of lockdown brought something I didn’t expect: a strange rational calm. Not my usual response to difficulty. Something had shifted, and I was still figuring out what.
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Rain, Tables, and a Job Offer – Covid Part 4
Week seven brought a job offer and a wet walk through the nature reserve. Week ten brought the particular exhaustion of the middle stretch… neither crisis nor normal, just the…
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Small Acts of Ridiculous – Covid Part 3
Getting drunk on a video call and shaving my head. Watching a seven-year-old discover that Infinity War does not have a happy ending. Lockdown weeks that were smaller and stranger…
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The Blackest Good Friday – Covid Part 2
Week three of lockdown. Good Friday, April 2020. Written in real time, which is the only reason I’d share it. Some things are only honest when they’re written in the…