Season/Change

This will be a short one, and the last one until I get the itch to write it again.

Perhaps it seems strange... but I felt the need to shrink my prospects, narrow my horizons, and move on to smaller endeavors.

--Tom Horton in An Island Out Of Time

Last June, Joanna and I moved from Baltimore to Westover, the southeastern corner of Maryland where she and I grew up. We moved for a quieter life and to be closer to our family while we raise our girls.

I haven’t written an installment of this newsletter in over a year - first because I was in the thick of preparing for the move, but now because I don’t feel particularly motivated to write it. My embodied life is full. The digital world has lost much of its pull.

I began this quarterly as a sort of conscientious objection to social media… I was signing off of social, and this was the way you could “keep up” with me digitally beyond the gates of those attention merchants. I expect that I’ll still share updates here from time to time, when I have something of note to share… but it will no longer be quarterly.

I’ll leave you with this quote by Henri Nouwen: