The Broadening
Musings and missives on an intentional life, theology, and politics.
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On questions (opens the original)
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Floundering (opens the original)
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I have been trying and mostly failing to write something here for far too long. Part of that is the aspiration I have held in my head for what the writing needs to be. It needs to be moving, it needs to be reasoned and just right. It needs to solicit comments without doing so explicitly. But I think all this pressure I have been putting on myself to write something perfect, and to feel a state of flow while doing so—it isn’t realistic. Writing is not meant to be perfect. And it is not meant to b
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