Identity

But what if stuckness isn’t just psychological miscalibration? What if it’s not failure at all, but initiation? What if the room you can’t yet leave is not a trap, but a crucible? I’m not offering a sermon here, at least not one you’d hear in church, but bear with me!

Nearly every sacred text worth reading insists on the necessity of the in-between.... See more

More and more it seems to me that about the best thing in life is to have a piece of work worth doing and then to do it well.

“All art,” he wrote, “is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story, to vomit the anguish up.”