Agency
“Lose no time; be always employ’d in something useful; cut off all unnecessary actions.” ~Benjamin Franklin
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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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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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Advent Week Four: Love
Advent love is not sentiment or spectacle. It is nearness. The fourth week sharpens longing as Christmas approaches, reminding us that love moves first, enters risk, and stays present. Advent waiting ends here, but the season does not. What arrives does not conclude the story. It begins it. Continue reading
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Sunday Evening Collective ~ December 14th Edition
Advent Week Three turns toward joy that is quiet, durable, and near. Not cheer manufactured, but longing awakened. Through Lewis, Buechner, and song, this edition invites attentive waiting, shared beginnings, and embodied notice. Joy arrives as gift, woven into ordinary moments, pointing beyond itself toward grace, hope, and home, together. Continue reading
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Advent Week Three: Joy
Advent joy is not the reward of arrival, but the elation of knowing what we hope for is coming. It rises from certainty, not possession. This week invites us to notice where waiting has turned light, where trust lifts the heart, and joy quietly begins to move. Continue reading
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Field Research: Peace in the Middle of the Street
Advent peace is not delicate. It is strength carried into noise. This week’s field research reminds us that peace is trained in quiet moments and tested in crowded ones. One breath, one pause, one act of gentleness becomes a steady center that holds while the world keeps rushing past. Continue reading
Advent Adventure Agency Albums Andrew Huberman Apostle James Apostle Paul Aristotle Art of Manliness Benjamin Franklin Books Breathing C.S. Lewis Challenges Character Christianity Christmas Courage Creativity Culture Desert Island Music Discipline Emerson Epictetus Failure Faith Focus Frederick Buechner G.K. Chesterton Goals God Goethe Goodreads Gratitude Habit Hammock Health & Fitness History Honor Hope Humility Industry Interviews J.R.R. Tolkien Jack London James Clear Jeff Olson Jesus John Eldredge Justice Kipling Laird Hamilton Leadership Love Manliness Marcus Aurelius Mark Twain Mental Toughness Mindfulness Money Music Music 80’s Music 1980 Music 1981 Music 1987 Non-fiction Oliver Wendell Holmes Orison Swett Marden Oswald Chambers Peace Personal Development Politics Prophet Isaiah Quotes Recovery Resolution Resurrection Band Rick Rubin Routines & Rituals Rush Saint Augustine Saint Thomas Aquinas Samuel Johnson Self-Reliance Seneca Silence T. S. Elliot The Choir Theodore Roosevelt The Police Thomas A Kempis Thoreau Tim Ferriss Training U2 Virtue Willpower Winston Churchill WODs Writers
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