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....

There’s a strange moment when trying harder actually makes everything worse—and most of us don’t realize we’re in it. What happens when we stop performing, persuading, and proving—and allow life to meet us where we are?