What Is True Is Already So So Might As Well Speak ItMy heart is a small quivering hand,planting seeds in the dead of winter. My days are an old dog, prone to wagging, then quietly laying down to escape...

How I Feel About Politics in America These Days…OK, I’ll tell you how I feel.I feel as frustrated as Sisyphus carrying that boulder.I feel a fear trembling, on a crowded tongue of silence. I feel rusty chains r...

It’s 2026, and a friend asks how you’re doing with politics these days. You just shake your head, thinking, “Well, maybe, as the poet Wendell Berry said, ‘The mind that is not baffled is not employed.’ Especially these days.” 

Obscurity is not freedom. Freedom is also no being a slave to attention or fashion. Mostly, freedom is freedom...Laboring In Obscurity  In some circles, this is considered real freedom or better than freedom—...

This poem invites us to imagine a different kind of enemy—one that doesn’t oppose or hate us, doesn’t rush us, and doesn’t need to negotiate. An enemy that patiently waits to help us become more authentic, more grounded, more humble, and human....