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Tools come out of it. Writing spills out when I feel like it. The rest of the time I'm busy with other things - the farmette , writing letters , and living life. M y workshop front yard:

When a Church Forgets What It Holds I've lost confidence that the modern Catholic Church still believes what it once taught—that truth is something received, guarded, and handed down, not something revised to match the mood of the age. I’m tired of pretending that an institution can keep remaking itself and still claim to stand on eternal ground. There is a point where silence becomes agreement. I’ve reached the point where I can no longer agree. Not with the language, not wi

Fear is not just an emotion. It is an organizing principle. At every scale of human life—from a single client frozen by perfectionism to a civilization locked in ritualized bureaucracy—fear functions as a gradient that enables coordinated action. Systems require sufficient fear to mobilize effort, but not so much that structure disintegrates. This creates a functional corridor: too little fear produces drift; too much produces paralysis; the right amount enables adaptation. T