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presence

(11 articles)

On Daily Tasks

Slow is smooth; smooth is fast.

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🔒 Distraction Is Not Freedom

Modern captivity rarely relies on chains or walls. It relies on distraction — the steady redirection of attention away from truth, cost, and agency. This essay examines how distraction functions as a form of managed enslavement, and why Christmas stands in quiet opposition to it by insisting on presence, embodiment, and attention that cannot be outsourced.

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Sunday Article (Dec. 21, 2025): God Enters the Ordinary

Christmas is often imagined as interruption or spectacle, but the Incarnation unfolds almost entirely within the ordinary. This Sunday reflection considers how God chooses to enter history quietly, relationally, and without exemption from human limitation — and why that choice still shapes what faithfulness looks like now.

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Hallow Presence

A rumination on what my understanding of presence has become.

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🔒 Paid Article (Sept. 29, 2025): The Day He Crossed Over

A minute-by-minute account of Monday, Sept 29 — from the 4 a.m. departure in Honolulu to the 8:30 p.m. text confirming your father’s passing — a day suspended between motion and stillness, farewell and peace.

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Bitcoin, Here Now

An invocation; from meditation to code - how Ram Dass's path to presence and the cypherpunks' quest for freedom meet in Bitcoin's ethical architecture.

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Free Article 1 (Sept. 30, 2025): Stillness After the Storm

The morning after my father’s passing, the world felt heavy yet newly clear. This piece sits in that stillness—where the body remembers motion but the heart is asked to rest. It is about letting silence teach what words cannot.

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Sunday Article (Sept. 28, 2025): A Prayer Across the Waters

Sunday in Honolulu — walking to Kawaiahaʻo Church, showing Pule no James Stanton to the Kahu from your iPhone, tasting locally grown Oʻahu chocolate, returning to the apartment, and saying goodbye late that night — a day of peace, love, and slow release.

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Free Article 2 (Sept. 24, 2025): When the Light Fades from Familiar Places

From sterile corridors to shifting light on the floor, Andrew captures the tender stillness of decline — when everything noisy fades and only love remains. In the fading of strength and certainty, he finds a subtler, eternal brightness that asks nothing but presence.

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Free Article 1 (Sept. 24, 2025): The Weight of What Remains

In the slow hush hospice care, grief begins before death. Andrew reflects on the strange holiness of waiting beside someone who is leaving this world — the way love deepens, sharpens, and surrenders as we realize we were never meant to hold on forever.

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You Got it Backwards

Exploring Intention

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