What we can learn from the animals about peace, presence, and being here for what we are here to be.

Why you should do what you love and do it honestly…

How the west is in for either a great wind down or ekpyrosis, how it will feel about the same, and how to keep going.

How simple it is to find joy, which is far better than happy, and how complicated we make it sometimes.

On three offshoots of one Naming of God and how to hold them in the particular and the universal.

Are ethics universal like physics? And if that were true, could humankind finally love one another?

How the obstacles that beat you are the very circumstances that shine you up.

The difference between divine and human conceptions of time, and other things that make you go hmmm.

How the poet of every age tells the truth to power; divine as Homer, unafraid of wolves.

The elegance beneath the evolution, the wisdom underneath the rocks, and other names for the face of God.

A remembrance to my son that in the midst of chaos, so many things are bright and beautiful.

Why it is never too late to know and be known by your Creator, and grab yourself a fresh start.

Why the wisest travelers read from the book of the world around them, and what it can teach you.

Why there is a part of you that refuses to be compromised, and how it is defiant but needs resilience.

Why you will never do anything worth doing in your life without courage.

How to think about the rituals you grew up with, outgrew, or are returning to with new eyes to see.

The war of the artist’s soul, and how to put the creative gloves on.

How we walk among the tombs in the modern West, and how to name your demons.

How the greatest heroes pay no mind to fate. Rather, they show up with just as much resolve.

A few thoughts on what we should mean when we mean to speak of God.