Writing is where I try to make sense of the things that refuse to leave me alone...
Some of these pieces begin with books. Some begin with a conversation, a photograph, a memory, or a question that arrives uninvited and refuses to depart. They are attempts to understand beauty, character, love, faith, friendship, and the strange business of becoming more fully human.
The progress that interests me has little to do with efficiency, achievement, or optimization. It is the slower work of refining perception, deepening affection, and learning to see the world more clearly than I did yesterday.
Reflections
These essays are the footprints of my curiosity.
I have spent most of my professional life helping institutions think about the future. These reflections are different. They are where I think about the permanent things: beauty, meaning, responsibility, wonder, memory, and the people and experiences that shape a life.
I rarely arrive at conclusions. More often, I find myself lingering over questions that seem worthy of a lifetime's attention.
Literature
I read the way some people travel.
The books that matter most to me are not escapes from reality but deeper entrances into it. Homer, Shakespeare, Dickens, Lewis, and countless others have been companions in an ongoing conversation about courage, love, loss, duty, beauty, and what it means to live well.
This section is less about reviewing books than listening carefully to what great writers still have to say.
Poetry
Poetry often reaches truths that prose can only circle from a distance.
I am drawn to poets who understand that beauty and longing are not separate things. A single line can contain more wisdom than an argument and more honesty than an autobiography.
Here I share poems that have stayed with me, reflections on the poets I admire, and occasional attempts of my own to put wonder into words.