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Recovery Is Not Optional
Sleep is not rest from effort but the place where effort pays off. Recovery determines whether training, work, and stress become strength or wear. Ignored long enough, sleep debt erodes performance, health, and longevity. Treated seriously, sleep becomes the quiet discipline that preserves durability over time across a longer life. Continue reading
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A Manly Character
Manly character is not performance or bravado. It is bearing. Formed in restraint, silence, duty, and obscurity. Shaped most at home, under pressure, and without applause. Drawing on Stoic wisdom, this essay explores the quiet cost of choosing formation over reaction and holding one’s line when drift is easier. Continue reading
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Returning to the Work
This essay reflects on returning to guitar and writing alongside a slow reading of The Creative Act. Read like a devotional, the book sharpened attention rather than productivity. It reminded me that creativity begins with awareness, patience, and discovering something quietly new inside familiar work over time daily. Continue reading
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Field Research: Year Bearing
This Field Note invites a quiet pause at the start of the year. Rather than setting goals, it encourages readers to name their current roles, choose a clear direction, and take one small step forward. Year Bearing begins not with ambition, but with orientation and attention. Continue reading
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Epiphany
Epiphany marks the moment when presence becomes recognition. God has come near, remained, and now is seen. The Magi remind us that revelation is found by those who watch the horizon and respond with alignment, not certainty. Christmas ends not with resolution, but with vision that sends us back into ordinary days attentive to the… Continue reading
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Choosing a Bearing
This essay reframes resolutions as direction, not declarations. It invites readers to name their roles, choose a bearing, and make small course corrections through the year. By practicing agency and resolve through simple, repeatable actions, lasting change compounds quietly, shaping who we become by December rather than what we achieve. Continue reading
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First Sunday of Christmas
Advent has given way to arrival. The First Sunday of Christmas invites us to dwell rather than rush ahead. God has not only come near, but has chosen to remain. Dwelling is not achieved by effort, but received as presence. Christmas teaches us to stay, to trust what has been given, and to live from… Continue reading
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St. John the Evangelist
St. John the Evangelist bears witness through endurance rather than martyrdom. After love arrives and is tested, John shows what it means to remain. His faith is not dramatic, but faithful. Love abides across years, holding to what was true from the beginning and refusing to withdraw when the story grows long. Continue reading
Chase The Kangaroo 