Art Cures Nothing- An Approach to Nihilism
“We lay out our lives in a narrative we understand, like a movie, but are you enjoying making it or are you wondering who’s watching my movie?” Donald Glover An all-too-common phase in western society among its…
A Collection of Short Poems
Loom Here I sit. Spinning to no end. Each thread is color. Each color is earth. Vast Grey giant Consuming words like gnats Into the wind passes vast concern Scattered for all eternity Into insignificance Inside Worms…
My Brothers and I Hunted
My brothers and I crouched in a grotto sculpted by centuries of rainwater, by embers bursting from the rapid chafing of cracked spruce. Every shade of red and orange danced along the cavern walls, reflecting in our…
A Hermit’s Wanderings: Chapter Two
Chapter Two: Greenwock’s Weird Words The lore-keeper, who formally introduced himself as Greenwock, led Aibinn through the dim library to a small room behind a bookshelf where he slept. The room was furnished simply, with a short…
A Hermit’s Wanderings
Chapter One: Tidings of Toadstools In a far bygone age there lived an old hermit. He had no kin and few friends; no one even knew his family name. Those closest to him called him Aibinn, but…
The Age of Responsibility
Trends, whether good or bad, seem to take the world by storm, and the trends of responsibility are no exception. The age of responsibility, when a person becomes responsible for their actions and takes on other responsibilities,…
Valor: Part Four
Remember The Alamo! This is the final part of Valor. Read Part Three here. The campfire and the image of the campfire danced together along the limestone walls of the mission while Michaels, Rigsby, and the soldiers…
Valor: Part Three
System Failure Read Part Two of Valor here. Rigsby was in a rage. “That’s it, we have wasted enough of our time and energy- I know those jumps aren’t cheap, I know it has to require an…
Valor: Part Two
D-Day Read Part One of Valor here. “I’m just going to kill as many Nazis as I can, don’t worry Doc,” said a voice that elicited a loud “Hooyah!” from the men in the room. “Again, we…
Valor: Part One
The Solution The hope in the room and the hope on the earth faded with the countdown looming on the wall, glowing in murderous red: 4 months, 12 days, 9 hours, and 21 minutes. A man stood…
Life is Numinous
There is a numinous quality to the realization that we are alive. What we think of as mundane sometimes lulls us to sleep. We become unaware of the glory surrounding us, and we blithely glide across the…
Wake Up for the Sake of World
Wake up. Wake up to the world. Wake up for the world. Wake up for yourself. These are the things I think and wish I could say to the world. The thing that stops me is not…
How to Raise a Clementine
Maturing is learning and adapting in some way, maturity itself is inevitable and malleable by an individual’s experiences. Fruit matures as it receives nutrients, it grows and becomes a delightful thing that pleases others. Fruit that matures…
What is Dead May Never Die
Recently, I have had the immense pleasure of watching Game of Thrones, an HBO television show based off of novels written by George R.R. Martin. This show, while complex in terms of characters and plots, mainly follows…
Reflecting on John 15:1-17
I’m mixing it up this time, choosing to reflect rather than contemplate. The reason for the distinction is that I believe there is a big difference we should have when reading literature and when reading The Bible.…
The Two Will Become One Flesh
Why God Created Sex for Marriage Imagine the world of the future: All unwanted consequences of consensual sexual actions have been removed. Women and men have total and equal freedom in their sexual behaviors. Both can have…
Contemplating Albert Camus’ The Stranger
Another post, another contemplation. This time, it is on another book from my time at Trinity Academy, The Stranger by Albert Camus. I promise they won’t all be on former Trinity curriculum, but a good few will…
Education, Fairness, and Justice
How can schools justly ascribe merit? According to google dictionary, fairness is “impartial and just treatment or behavior without favoritism or discrimination.” The combination of the words impartial and just can easily be misunderstood. Fairness can’t require…
The Benefits of Wonder
“wonder is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in wonder… It was their wonder, their astonishment, that first led men to philosophize and still leads them,” (982 b12). In his work of Metaphysics, Aristotle describes the foundations…
Javert and the Weight of Shame
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo is one of the most deeply beautiful books I have ever read. Les Miserables the musical is a masterpiece of adaptation. The melodic beauty which grips our attention from the earliest moments…
Contemplating Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer
One of my former teachers at Trinity Academy, Mr. Horner, teaches philosophy senior year. One of the books we read in that class is Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer. I remember Mr. Horner saying that he rereads this…
The Theology of Mystery and Humility
I am a blessed man. I have a wonderful wife of 10 years, and together we have been blessed with two beautiful daughters. I have been blessed with many other things, but I see my family as…
Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milk
Joshua Gibbs has an ongoing series, Proverbial, wherein he meditates on proverbs presented throughout the ages. These proverbs are, in his words, “wise sayings a man my live by if he is not too arrogant to think himself…
The New Roman Empire: Part Three
A crowd had formed, the innermost circle raving about whoever was in the center, though they were many feet away from their object of concern, and held weapons normally used for intimate murder. They covered their mouths,…
The New Roman Empire: Part Two
In Lugano, Switzerland (censured), sirens sounded to alert the townsfolk of the warm August morning. Days were numbered, and every city was ordered to set a blare for ten a.m. in E major and at ten p.m.…
Rationality and Irrationality
Math and Truth have an interesting relationship. Mathematics, like truth, is steadfast and immovable and not open to interpretation. 2 plus 2 is equal to 4, period. Even more interesting is the relationship between Rationality and Truth.…
The New Roman Empire: Part One
“In a matter of time, they will all worship the Chancellor as God. I’m sure of it. Is there anyone left that has not been touched by him? If there are, they will be too afraid to…
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