Holding a Map I Could Not Read
I used to lie awake trying to predict the rest of my life. Marcus Aurelius and St. Paul taught me to meet the present instead of drawing a map I could not read.
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Reflections
Short essays on clarity, courage, and grace under pressure.
These are weekly personal posts on how I bring Stoic wisdom and faith into ordinary days—practice over theory, one reflection at a time.
Avoiding Procrastination
I was standing at my desk in my home office clicking away at the keyboard. My to-do list is next to me on a whiteboard and doesn’t seem to get any shorter.
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Radical Acceptance: One Broken Pipe at a Time
What stands in the way becomes the way"
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Stoic Persistence: Persist and Resist
"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence."
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Iron Sharpens Iron
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.” – Proverbs 27:17
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Stoic Acceptance: Dog Chained to a Wagon
"Fate leads the willing, and drags the unwilling."
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