Uplifting 2020 Conversation Topics
The question “Do you have a TikTok?” definitely sparks an interesting conversation.
Choosing My Confessions
Perhaps confession has more to do with vulnerability and emergency than with orthodoxy and tradition.
A Few Reflections on Wind Through Trees
In The Color Purple by Alice Walker, Shug tells Celie, “I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don’t notice it.”
I’ll Venmo You
$20 in a bank only means what it does because we’ve built institutions and systems to support and protect the idea that $20 means $20.
It’s Lovely Here Today
Generations survived by this resource that I now visit a few times a week for a pleasant view and a whipping fresh breeze.
The Ballad of the Aeropress
I asked the fair barista, “Sir,
Have you the stock I seek?”
“Alas,” said he, “our shelves are bare,
And will be for a week.”
Ice Cream Zagat
A cheesy name celebrating the town it can be found in? 10/10. A charming new addition of orange pool noodles glued to its exterior to ensure social distancing? Dreamy.
Tolkien in Azeroth
The ability to imagine outside our four walls is how we stay sane.
Incomplete Lists of Subjects I Tend to Avoid
73. Taxes.
Turkish Delights
All I know is that during a long vacation, I wandered into a moving tale of dangerous dreams, opportunities to heal former traumas, and people who met at the wrong (or maybe perfect?) time.
