I've been playing guitar for a few months now, as well as singing more regularly after literally years of not doing so much at all, but I haven't recorded myself that much, nor have I done a ton of...
2023-10-12 17:12:36 +0000 UTC
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Unlocked for general people, a clip from my much longer ramble on my final thoughts, half a year after the fact, on 2023-02-25 03:25:54 +0000 UTC
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Hello, lovely supportive people.
For Christmas this year I got myself a new microphone, in part in advance of the eventual audiobook of The Hands of Maggie Fate but also just b...
2023-02-07 00:20:23 +0000 UTC
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(As I said on Twitter, this is a Serious Horror Novelization of the very bad film MANOS: The Hands of Fate. It is ongoing and should be considered a rough draft. Updates (probably) will be...
2022-09-17 18:53:58 +0000 UTC
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First two episodes drop May 3rd. Patreon supporters get the first three episodes May 1st.
(Music: "Messier 45" by Stellardrone)
2022-03-30 17:40:59 +0000 UTC
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Now that this is unlocked, a few points of information.
Yes, this is really happening for real this time. This is not a standalone preview; this is a clip from the beginning of episode ...
2022-02-18 20:21:45 +0000 UTC
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Because I haven’t done one of these in a while, and because this is a writer who’s been on my mind a lot of late, here is a reading of Jorge Luis Borges’s stunning short story “Tlön, Uqbar...
2022-02-16 23:27:31 +0000 UTC
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Join me (and distant children, and cicadas, and a plane) in the patio Writing Grotto for a ramble on how I've been thinking about what it means to me to believe something and why in my opinion we o...
2021-09-27 21:47:07 +0000 UTC
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[image credit: ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/AFP]
(A note because this is going up unlocked:...
2021-09-01 02:04:33 +0000 UTC
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(I wrote this in about 45 minutes, read it through once, and I have no idea where to post it so I’m p...
2021-07-03 05:21:44 +0000 UTC
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As part of my ritual practice this Midsummer—my first Alban Hefin, or Light of the Shore in ...
2021-06-21 20:14:09 +0000 UTC
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In which I talk in somewhat rambling terms about spirituality, reality denial, and the fear of death, inspired by some excellent commentary on an interview with wellness influencer and conspiritual...
2021-05-21 21:19:03 +0000 UTC
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Spring Beauty (Claytonia virginica) from my walk today
As soon as the generals ...
2021-04-04 22:57:37 +0000 UTC
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Of the three days that culminate this week, I think Holy Saturday is commonly glossed over. After all, it’s the day when not much happens; it has none of the acute drama of Good Friday and we are...
2021-04-03 18:56:47 +0000 UTC
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(The cross I made of holly wood that hangs above our door)
A Crucified God is the dr...
2021-04-02 17:15:27 +0000 UTC
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Turner Tuesday is getting postponed to next week; I have a couple of pressing deadlines in the next couple of days that are making the prospect of wading into that literary hellscape nearly unbeara...
2021-03-30 21:13:21 +0000 UTC
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Today is Alban Eiler, the spring equinox, and I found myself thinking over and over of resurrection, wh...
2021-03-21 02:15:12 +0000 UTC
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Unexpected and hopefully not long. Basically what’s happened is that I lost access to the edition of the book I was working from, which was hosted on archive.org. Apparently they took it do...
2021-02-23 22:08:28 +0000 UTC
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I wanted to write a little something for Imbolc the way I have for the other festival days, but I’m f...
2021-02-02 19:30:55 +0000 UTC
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(Taken by me on a trip to southeastern Poland. Filters, obviously.)
I want to talk for a second a...
2021-01-31 02:24:15 +0000 UTC
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And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us. — John 1:14
God lo...
2020-12-26 06:26:08 +0000 UTC
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Tonight I’ll keep a fire burning until dawn.
Which actually requires a lot of wood, an...
2020-12-22 05:00:24 +0000 UTC
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There’s always something uncomfortably presumptuous in writing about pain.
I mean, I think ther...
2020-12-20 23:20:58 +0000 UTC
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Those Pagans who choose to bring a live tree—mine is specifically a Christmas tree but this works for...
2020-12-14 19:28:33 +0000 UTC
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do you think there is anywhere, in any language,
a word billowing enough
for the pleasur...
2020-12-13 22:45:40 +0000 UTC
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Deep within the still center of my being may I find peace.
Silently within the quiet of...
2020-12-06 21:48:56 +0000 UTC
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I made my own Advent wreath this year.
It’s actually not the first time I’ve done t...
2020-11-29 21:38:30 +0000 UTC
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[image by Pulkit Kamal]
When I finished writing this in the fall of 2019 I had no idea w...
2020-11-01 20:11:31 +0000 UTC
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