waiting.

“It isn’t necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don’t even listen, just wait. Don’t wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.” -Franz Kafka

Late night.

“It’s a very difficult era in which to be a person, just a real, actual person, instead of a collection of personality traits selected from an endless Automat of characters.” -Gillian Flynn, “Gone Girl”

Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter––tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther….And one fine morning—
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The Great Gatsby

Blast from the past: “Everyone Hates Greek Clubs: Here’s Maybe Why” (2011)

Originally written April 4, 2011. Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the systems that we use to gain value, worth, and basically, false redemption. Donald Miller enables this great metaphor in his book Searching For God Knows What: Basically, we are all on a sinking lifeboat that has one too many passengers. We are fighting […]

Here we go again.

Thoreau once said, “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” Well, my eternity seems to be creating new blogs because here I am at the ever-familiar new chapter of a blog. This time, I really will commit to it, however, unwilling reader, there are rules. 1. […]

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waiting.

Late night.

The Green Light

Blast from the past: “Everyone Hates Greek Clubs: Here’s Maybe Why” (2011)

Here we go again.