Yesterday evening, James and I went for a hike on the Konza. We enjoyed the late light together, ate spicy chicken sandwiches, and had one of our “man chats.” And he said he can’t wait until I take him to hike a mountain in Colorado. Love this boy.

#primalpath #intentionalfatherhood

“You can't raise boys to be scared of life. You gotta brew some recklessness into them.”

-Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman, The Royal Tenenbaums)

This was a great article about the best of the monastic practices (prayer and contemplation, slowing down, even manual labor), their helpfulness in our contemporary society, and how they can be mapped in the digital wild.

christianitytoday.com/2025/01/new-...

I've been thinking about a few things I would tell my younger self to start a new year with a solid foundation. Here they are:

The great secret
of all spiritual
fruitfulness and
growth is learning
to let God act.

-Jacques Philippe

Truly good news of great joy

Merry Christmas!

God does not rest on the seventh day simply to recover from the work he has done. Rather, rest is his nature. It completes the creation. It is the essence of creation. Thus, when we subordinate rest to work, we ignore the divine.

Byung-Chul Han, Disappearance of Ritual, 36

“In the church, this is the season of Advent. It’s superficially understood as a time to get ready for Christmas, but in truth it’s the season for contemplating the judgment of God. Advent is the season that, when properly understood,

Phenomenal book by @arthurcbrooks filled with insight. Many of us are stuck on the first curve, which is headed for deeper and deeper decline over the course of our life. And it hits sooner than we may want to admit.

Our latest podcast just released--

Sarah and I talk about why taking a risk might just be the answer you need to feeling down or stuck in your life.

Check it out on YouTube: youtu.be/LOKA9dOlY1U

Or Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/0qOk...

Tacos al pastor for tonight