It's about the very human desire to be part of something larger than ourselves, and the danger of attaching that desire to power. Pyle believes so completely in his own good intentions that he can't see the harm he's doing in their name. But also about what happens when our faith in institutions begins to collapse while our longing for purpose and belonging remains intact.
Being in Soldier Field packed to the rafters with a predominantly Hispanic audience at a time like this wasn't lost on me. It's hard not to look at it as something that does have a broader philosophical message.
1mo ago
We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts. He who has learned to love a flower has learned something of the secret of being at home in the world.
I had hoped, while my kids were still kids, that we'd live in Texas for a year, that they'd know something of my childhood—not just America generally, but something about the neighborhood I grew up in and the space and the year-round warm weather that makes childhood an outdoor sport, and not an indoor one as it is in England from October onward.
Now that Cupertino was worthy of an exit, I began to understand the city as a node along some larger, abstract circuit.
3mo ago
Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. And within that home there are no sermons preached, no creeds recited; only the ancient, wordless liturgy of wind and stone.
I've spent years missing out on what I presume to be a never-ending group chat in which my closest friends, their siblings, one guy someone worked with for a summer in college, and another whom we randomly met at a bachelor party weekend all roast one another in ways that feel, at least occasionally, like love.
7mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
