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On Defending Hypocritical Asceticism.

Aug 5

On Seeking the Desert of Stillness in a Time of Radical Upheaval.

Jul 20

Walking together (virtually, and otherwise) through unclear times.

Jul 13

On Stargazing at a Remote Benedictine Monastery.

Jun 28

On Walking in Darkness.

Jun 17

Jun 14

The Great Silence.I am finally at the Monastery. I started reading The Sunlilies, by Graham Pardun upon arrival. The perfect book to begin my stay here. Once I am…

May 30

Music for the Post-Anthropocene.The algorithm (praise be unto it) has recently alerted me to the work of the American composer John Luther Adams. This is music that glimpses wh…

May 12

Postmodernism, metamodernism (and simulation) and the musical hope of the West.

May 10

The holiness of the ordinary in the present darkness.

May 2

Seeking the Mystery of Being at a Remote Benedictine Monastery .

Apr 19

This is Stillness in the West, a newsletter about seeking Healing of the Soul and Community in the Age of Nihilism.

Apr 13

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