Bringing Fire To Earth
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stop the fans (opens the original)
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Something momentous happened yesterday.For the first time since we moved here, we were able to turn off all the fans.Bringing Fire To Earth is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<div class="fake-i
perfect. or not. (opens the original)
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This is an audio piece, originally. You can take the person out of the pulpit but…It's not exactly a sermon. It's like…the thing I would have started with to get to a sermon if I were preaching next week. (I'm not, as far as I know.)The whole audio thing is over on Patreon, membership gated but not paywalled, which is to say you can listen for the low cost of signing up to occasionally be reminded that there's something over there to hear. All my podcast episodes go up over there and some more p
Moving Slowly In (opens the original)
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the rule is, I don't know where anything is.the rule is, it's always something.the rule is, (the rule right-now is) the one thing I have going for me, which is the impelling force of inspiration, will be impeded a thousand times before breakfast, before I pick up my fork, before I take to my desk.
Boxes (opens the original)
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I’ve been…living.Lol.I typed moving but autocorrect decided that’s not what I meant, and in the spirit of Annie Dillard I guess it’s not wrong to say I’ve been living. “The way we spend our days is, after all, the way we spend our lives.”<div class="image2-inset"
on the non-emptiness (opens the original)
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How do you just do nothing?It's 4 am and I'm lying awake in bed, again, having an imaginary conversation with my soundly-sleeping partner across town. How do you just do nothing? I picture her sitting peacefully on the couch, knitting lace and watching the kind of TV show that itself gives me anxiety, all political drama and complex court intrigue. When we are together she very kindly switches over to baking reality TV or lets me put on YouTubes about the historical origin of pants. There's a lo
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