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I write fiction, poetry, comedy, philosophy and theology, and resources for artists to grow in their craft, but I really don’t know what is helping people without feedback. I moved here to Substack because they make is so easy to connect!
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The Greater Awakening 4/8 (opens the original)
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READ PART 3 HERE 4: A Poet’s Grammar for Seeing Gerard Manley Hopkins saw what Chaucer saw, but approached it from a different angle. We don’t have the categories needed to help our children to expect the world to work the way the way they’ll actually experience it. Our materialism is the wicked step-mother in Grimm’s Cinderella, handing a knife to her daughter to chop off her toes so her feet fit in the golden slipper. Like the fairy-tale, that mindset ends with pigeons pecking out your
Just Some Manliness from Gerard (opens the original)
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Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedAs Kingfishers Catch Fire As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame; As tumbled over rim in roundy wells Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name; Each mortal thing does one thing and the same: Deals out that being indoors each one dwells; Selves — goes itself; myself it speaks and spells, Crying Whát I dó is me: for that I came. I say mó
The Greater Awakening 3/8 (opens the original)
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READ PART 2 HERE3: Puberty as Spiritual AwakeningThe Springtime of the SoulI spent most of my life thinking about puberty materialistically. It’s the air we breathe. The physical changes happening in teens are merely biological, evolutionary, mechanical. But reading medieval poetry, particularly Chaucer, opened my eyes. Puberty is also a spiritual awakening.In the opening lines of The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer writ
The Greater Awakening 2/8 (opens the original)
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READ PART 1 HERE2: Puberty as the “First Book”: General Revelation and the BodyTheologians have often called creation God’s first book. The Bible is God’s second book. The first book communicates poetically, analogically, and allegorically. It communicates truth. Puberty is not a medical crisis needing management. It’s a living page in God’s first book.Your teenager is living general revelation. In our stories, our histo
The Greater Awakening 1/8 (opens the original)
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1: The Crisis of the Thinned Imagination We are born in a fog of ignorance. Throughout our lives people hand us portions of the map. We are always adjusting it, but it is mostly handed to us. On our honest days we realize it. But the modern imagination has largely forgotten.When we’re young Our imaginations are jungles, full of mystique, romance, riddles, and adventure. But life clears the jungle. If you clear a jungle and don’t tend the space, planting as you clear, it thins. It thins into dese
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