This version of my online “journal” began anew in 2015, and I’ve been writing with some regularity since then. In 2019, I revisited and updated the entire catalog. By 2024, I decided it was time to start publishing my work in book form, and the process started again from the beginning. This is how The Reluctant Pilgrim series was born.
Tag: writing
We read a thousand books to glean a thousand morsels with which to discern, devise, design, and, in practice, implement our own life philosophy.
If we choose to write, said philosophy emerges directly…
There have been times in my life when days were extremely long and I was completely exhausted from work. That was something I enjoyed for a while. But my life inevitably returns to this default structure, covering the essentials, and I believe that right now that is enough.
It feels true to me that we write primarily for ourselves, whether it’s poetry, prose, a script for stage or screen, lyrics for music or text for commercial copy. We are ultimately the ones to satiate and to fulfil; we will read it (repeatedly), listen to it (a lot), or be subject to its repercussions once released out into the world.
We had a good talk today.