💬 💬 In an effort to clarify my core values over the past few months, I’ve been collecting what I call “North Stars” which are just quotes, poems, monostichs, old sermons from myself or others, etc. What I find myself returning to and needing to recite. I’ve also asked friends about theirs and have been delighted (I’ll share those at a later time). I’m not yet sure what will make it onto my final “map” project or how it will evolve, but I’m pleased with how these pieces already feel like they’ve been guiding and anchoring me to the sky. I hope you enjoy some of them as well. ⭐️ Stay up!

Contributing Voices

>Ashbery · Jesus Christ · Clarice Lispector · Wallace Stevens · Viola Davis · Kierkegaard · Emily Dickinson · Robert Duncan · Kinnell · Hopkins · Eugene Peterson · Viktor Frankl · Jim Rohn · Proverbs · the Psalms · the Epistles · Binchtopia · Lucie Brock-Broido · my beautiful father · a wise friend

Some North Stars

  1. A Providence will watch over me
  2. How then, does the bird live?
  3. If there is a god, he is not done
  4. Life is seen by life
  5. Be never bored
  6. Be the neighbor who notices
  7. In the meantime, there is always beauty
  8. Reteach all things its loveliness
  9. The world is my fourth dimension
  10. Let your yes be yes and your no be no
  11. The Truth shall make you free
  12. Preserve your ability to respond
  13. Shepherds are still tender in a time of war
  14. Let me stay tenderhearted, despite despite despite
  15. Love drives out all fear
  16. The world of the generous gets larger
  17. Keep a council of eunuchs, and consult them
  18. Find yourself a trinity
  19. Courage is the cure
  20. You are who you hang out with
  21. Faithfulness keeps me safe
  22. Choose integrity or die trying
  23. Not knowing when the dawn will come, open every door
  24. Read the full terms and consequences
  25. Hope is the thing with feathers
  26. After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends. / No was the night. Yes is this present Sun.
  27. After life, there must be life
  28. Desire, but do not grasp
  29. There are no rules