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Love is Still the Answer

in which appears the insistent ghost of my father

Nov 16 •

December 2022

You are divine and you belong here

the one with a trigger warning

Dec 19, 2022 •

Pizza, the Pipitones and Johnny Paycheck

a meditation on finding Christmas joy

Dec 12, 2022 •

November 2022

On how to master gravity

lessons on survival in deep time

Nov 28, 2022 •

Burning out and fading away

a meditation on sobriety

Nov 12, 2022 •

October 2022

Let the golden age begin

otherwise known as the last sermon I never preached

Oct 7, 2022 •

July 2022

"the land that never has been yet" - Langston Hughes

Jul 5, 2022 •

June 2022

Goodbye to the old gods

Last night we lit the big fire out back and burned everything from 8th grade. It was the summer solstice, the longest night of the year, and L has…

Jun 22, 2022 •

May 2022

What is this and where am I...

This is God, Sex, Smoke & Sugar, a newsletter about faith, addiction, compassion and tiny moments of redemption in an irredeemable world.

May 5, 2022 •

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