John Lennon famously used to make fun of Paul McCartney’s songwriting, calling them “silly love songs.” It’s not hard to grasp Lennon’s point; there may […] Read More
Author: J Dot
There’s a wonderful John O’Donohue poem, A Blessing For One Who Is Exhuasted, that includes the maxim “Be excessively gentle with yourself.” There are days […] Read More
I got on Substack for the bikes. Specifically, I wanted to subscribe to Spencer Martin’s Beyond the Peloton, which is not about the exercise bike […] Read More
Advent in general, and this Advent in particular, feels to me like time spent setting up in the fridge. I’ve stirred my ingredients up a bit this year, and I have imagined this process as similar to a caterpillar in a chrysalis. Something about that didn’t quite fit though. Metamorphosis involves a worm turning to goo, down to a genetic level. I’m not sure that I could turn to goo, even if I wanted to.