Jonathan Simcoe

The key is to know where we are, and whose we are, and where we’re headed, and not be surprised by the burdens of the road.

Mountains and clouds are fractal shapes. So fractals are probably related to reality. Somehow.

I wanted my account to have a raw, ruthless sort of honesty that seemed in danger of leaching away with the passage of time and the dissipation of anguish.

But that to me is how you use technology, rather than letting it use you.

Now to water had that Ainu whom the Elves call Ulmo turned his thought, and of all most deeply was he instructed by Ilúvatar in music. But of the airs and winds Manwë most had pondered, who is the noblest of the Ainur. Of the fabric of Earth had Aulë thought, to whom Ilúvatar had given skill and knowledge scarce less than to Melkor; but the delight

The Rule is another example of Augustine’s spiritual realism: it is an honest, unsentimental guide for the challenges of living in community, well acquainted with the heart’s crooked bent toward selfishness, snobbery, greed, and exclusion.

he first figuratively and then literally set out to “play God,” initially by making the claim that humans had the power of gods and then during the past decade by creating an organization to save and restore endangered species with modern biotechnology.

When I stop looking to some facet of finite creation to feed a hunger for the infinite, I don’t have to reject or detest creation. To the contrary, in a sense I get it back as a gift, as something to be (small-e) enjoyed as a way to (big-E) Enjoy the Creator who made it. It’s when I stop overexpecting from creation that it becomes something I can