daniel shepherd

If there is only one personality trait I share with Christ without effort, it is a desire to be understood exclusively by the right sort.

youtu.be/uLHdAoxPkEE Ship's Reporter: "Bob Sherwood once told me that the proximity of the telephone was his greatest problem." Williams: "I find that to be, yes, because I can't resist answering it."

Always a Carraway. Never a Gatsby.

Lewis, Four Loves

Always thought sanguine meant sad, not the opposite. I don't even think I'm wrong. The definition is wrong. The word sounds sad. Stop trying to make sad words happy.

The oft-spiritualized term "flow state" in contemporary writing parlance is a tacit admission that creative presence is a modern day novelty. The first essay on "flow state" was likely written by an attempted novelist, who, frightened by his own progress, became a critic instead.

Intellectual boredom is trying to love the Tennessee Titans logo.

Good friends are like famous people no one knows about.

TFW I'm excited for some new Hegel and haven't read a page of the old.

Funny people do not tend to write novels.

Making the case to my wife this Easter for Jesus’ first acts as a resurrected super human — folding a negligible fraction of the laundry and leaving his clothes on the floor.

Throwing away your prolific child’s under-developed art is the height of optimism.

Meanwhile, Weezer wrote a Holy Week resurrection song. open.spotify.com/track/11Mux…

And I heard your voice calling from on high, saying “I am the food of full-grown men.” -Confessions