Captian's Log Thanksgiving 2025 27 Nov 202525 Nov 2025 Happy Thanksgiving. Today I am immensely grateful for my job. I have been out of work a long time, and a lot of us have been. It's probably only going…
Captian's Log Dear Sid, 22 Jul 2025 So, three Biblical ideas occur to me while reading your essay: Whether asked to become birds or bread, God seems to keep stones as stones. I don't think it's as…
Captian's Log A Rock of Happiness Submerged in Tears 20 Jul 202519 Jul 2025 How happy I am today. It is no fiery thing, no explosion, but a solid block, a faithful thing, I find inside my heart. It leaves room for tears and…
Captian's Log On Two Kinds of Death 2 Jul 2025 The staccato scratch of the silent sweeper's bouncing broom—I was watching the man as he worked, pushing the eclectic debris into a pile—was like music. A soft sound, one of…
Captian's Log Prayer at the End of Yesterday 29 Jun 202528 Jun 2025 The day is drawing to a close, and I know not what will come of the things I've set in motion. Nothing, most likely, and yet, it could be everything.…
Captian's Log A Second Chance to Love 20 Jun 2025 A second chance, a fearful thing, to fail a second time. To pluck out a mǎlodious twang,to flunk another rhyme. And yet I strum and hum and sing, accepting what…
Captian's Log The Wonderland of Atheists 9 Apr 2025 What do we mean when we speak of God? I mean, when we use the word, what are we referencing? When the atheist says that he doesn't believe, in what…
Captian's Log Believing 18 Oct 202314 Oct 2023 "The difference becomes clear when the meaning is blurred, for in the confusion you know that you want." "And what do I want?" "The truth, and you won't have it…
Captian's Log America? 6 Nov 20225 Nov 2022 I heard myself thinking to myself, "Maybe you're right, but I have no faith in America." Some of you may roll your eyes at this. What is more out of…
Captian's Log Desert Mountain 13 Oct 2022 Water! A drop of rain. Just the sound of a creek in this desolate mountain. Dust! Dust is all around. I have no air but what's filled with this swirling…