Taste is fate.

“I would rather be ashes than dust.” —Jack London

I've been mostly off X for a while as my fourth baby was born a short while ago, a son and my namesake. My wife and son are healthy. Thankful to God for this. However, things got rocky there for me for a while. Something was overwhelming about having number four, unlike I had

The original sin of Adam included the failure to protect her whom he was given.

“We should live to the spirit of the times.” And if that spirit is a demon?

Life is a game one contrives to lose whilst complaining about the rules.

Could a Saint have ever penned A Midsummer Night’s Dream, painted the The Birth of Venus or composed the “Jupiter” Symphony? And if, as I strongly suspect, such a thing is impossible to imagine – then what are the implications for Christians and the Christian relation to art?

It’s conversations like this that bring me back to X.

Man is looking for better methods but God is looking for better men.

I’ve been thinking about this for a long time. I’ve never seen an author visualize “the next stage of human evolution” that was aesthetically more pleasing than a physically fit human. Just try it. You can’t.

I remember the high point of my toxic masculinity. My wife and kids were depending on me, so I worked full time and went to school full time. Between that and homework, I was only sleeping for two or three hours per night. This went on for a long time. My toxic nature drove

The maze is my mind, and I am finding my way.

“Fiction is nothing but a false view of reality made to seem like a true one, in an attempt to confuse and deceive all who read it.” Response, friends?

Berto Consalvi John Bruce Leonard🪶 Art (in this context, fiction) is Truth drunk from a cup instead of being eaten off a plate.

"Yet sit and see/ Minding true things by what their mockeries be." -Shakespeare

Hello, friends. After an absence of more months than I care to acknowledge, I am returned. (And if the algorithm should bury this announcement, at least the machine will know that I am glad to be here.)

there are so many things worse than death