Category: The Garden
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An Observer No Longer – Covid Part 1
March 2020. For the first time in my life, I wasn’t watching from a distance. Isaac came home from school on a Thursday and didn’t go back for months.
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Emily
Written the day after we lost Emily. She beat cancer twice, and then an infection her new immune system couldn’t fight. She was intimidatingly talented, and she deserved much more…
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The Friendliness of Crowds
Two things I noticed on crowded platforms: how quickly strangers will help when you ask directly, and how easily a whole crowd will follow the wrong person down the wrong…
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Letter to Isaac: Have Faith
A letter to my son about the thing that took me the longest to find. Faith isn’t an escape from reason. It’s where I ended up after taking reason seriously…
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Letter to Isaac: Be Nice… Love
Of all the things I want Isaac to carry with him, this is the simplest and the hardest: be kind. Not as performance, not as weakness. As the actual shape…
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Thought for the Day: Being Caught
Someone who is falling doesn’t need to be told. They need to be caught. A thought on what it looks like to move toward people rather than stand back and…
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Thought for the Day: Gratitude
Science keeps finding what scripture said a long time ago. Gratitude isn’t just a nice feeling… it’s how we’re built to function. A thought on why that matters in practice.
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The Boiler Story
A story about selling a house with an aging boiler and choosing to stay quiet about it. A short piece on honesty, reputation, and the cost of small compromises.
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My Testimony
How I went from confident atheist to person of faith, without a dramatic moment or a single conversation that changed everything. It happened slowly, sideways, and not always willingly.