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Mepkin Abbey
In August of 2010, I spent a week at a silent retreat at Mepkin Abbey, a Trappist Monastery in South Carolina. I was in the midst of a time of discernment. I was so broke and scared and newly married. I would pray with the monks 7 times a day and eat with them in silence, and the rest of the time I just walked the grounds, or would read in my room during the heat of the day. I had zero cellā¦
Newsletter news
As many of you know, I have written a weekly newsletter since the spring of 2015. Itās a small act of love, an act of care, I put out into the world. The premise is simple: The world is filled with both ugliness and goodness, but ugliness knocks on your door, while goodness often requires you to look for it. So each week, I search the internet and look for things that inspire me, that seemā¦
What I don't know how to do.
There are people out there who like my writing. Who love it, actually. I have more than 200 folks who actually send me money every month just so I have time to write more. My open rates for my emails hover around 60%. Iāve sold dozens of 5 packs of my book to folks who love it and want to give it as gifts. Iām not for everyone. But the people who I am for connect deeply with what I write. I getā¦
The Daily Log
As a self-employed solo operator, one of the best things I do is keep a daily log. It began so I would remember when I did what, or what I committed to, but I quickly learned a side benefit was that as a solo operator, it is easy to have worked all damn day and feel you got nothing accomplished. Except you can look at the log and see that you actually did.Ā I donāt know that the tools matter allā¦
Spring Equinox - Jeanette Winterson: Mind Over Matter
This whole essay is beautiful, but I love the concept of borrowing free energy. I am a big believer in using free energy ā whether itās the energy generated round religious holidays, like Christmas time, or the energy we can feel from the changing of the seasons. Every day is not the same. Our personal energy levels are not the same every day ā we all know that. This has been a long winter. Ifā¦
Native Plants and Depoliticizing the Wildlife Garden - Humane Gardener
We canāt take care of the planet in the long term unless we take care of each other now. And we canāt take care of each other in the long term unless we take care of the planet now. I believe in human rights, and I welcome the other citizens of this earth with open arms. I believe in the rights of our fellow species to make a home here, too, and I welcome them with the plants they need toā¦
Watching the clouds
When I was a little boy, both of my parents worked a lot, and I spent a lot of time at my neighborās house. They were retired farmers, and as my surviving grandfather lived far away, they filled that role in my life.They were very much a product of their time. They didnāt follow daylight saving time, or government time, as they called it, and they didnāt have air conditioning, although I thinkā¦
Mike's Bible
Today is Mikeās birthday. Facebook reminded me this morning, which felt like a punch in the gut. So, I thought it was fitting to tell you about Mikeās Bible. The Bible itself is nothing to look at. If you were looking for a generic idea of what a Bible should look like, it would look like this one. Itās black leather, with gilt edges and a black ribbon to mark your place, and in gold script inā¦
The Bar
It was pouring rain outside, but inside the bar, it was warm and dry. It was also dark, and the task lighting here and there behind the bar made pools that illuminated the area around them. The murmur of conversation played off the piped-in piano jazz, and the overall effect was that you were lucky to be alive while such a place existed. It was the bar in a nice hotel in downtown Memphis in theā¦
Anti-Ableism | Ask Hugh Anything
I intend to answer a question from the readers of this blog each week (you can read more about this here). This weekās question comes from Karen. So many otherwise progressive people I encounter, especially in faith spaces, have not really examined their own ableism. You are a rare progressive who is on an anti-ableist journey. Iām curious how that happened to you. First of all, thank you forā¦
The Love List- part 2
In summer of 2024, I made a list of 100 things I love. Here is another 50. That sharp bite in the back of your throat from horseradish. The first sip of a Diet Coke from McDonalds. Browsing a bookstore on a rainy afternoon. The smell of a freshly plowed field. Muscadine jelly on a buttered biscuit. Wandering the produce section at the Asian market. Listening to someone nerd out over oneā¦
Ask Hugh anything (aha!)
Hi friends. I donāt know if youāve noticed, but Iāve been updating my blog each weeknight for a couple of weeks now. I like daily bloggingāitās generative for me. It makes me practice writing, even when Iām not working on a specific writing project, like the next book. Itās like offāseason training. Keeps me in shape. But in a way, blogging daily without a unifying project to order it isā¦
Why I stay
CW: Some mentions of sexual assault and spiritual abuse, but nothing graphic. When Dan was a boy, he idolized his grandfather: they were inseparable. Danās grandfather was a minister, and the way Dan described it to me,the grandfather was revered in their small town. He moved with integrity, his word was his bond, and he embodied manhood to Dan, and to many others in their town. It was hisā¦
The one about hope.
Iāve been in a position several times recently where I have been asked what I do. To which I replied, āDo about what, exactly?,ā which I think is funny and they never do. It turns out, when people asked that, they mean, āWhat is your occupation?ā, and I donāt have a good answer for that. The closest I come these days is āstorytellerā, which is somehow both true and not helpful, either to themā¦
Unfinished Business
I donāt know how he found me. But thatās true of so many people who read things I writeāI write things, and some of them connect. Itās a partnership between me and the reader. I supply the words, and yāall supply the meaning. He lived in Raleigh when I did, and so maybe he had sat in a church service where I preached, or maybe he was attracted to the work that happened at the nonprofit I ranā¦
Being a regular
When I first moved to Raleigh some twenty years ago now, I was living in a tiny room in a rooming house, and I needed a place to write. On the third day, I wandered into The Morning Times, a coffee shop downtown, and the barista asked my name. The next day when I came back, she used my name to greet me when I came in the door. After that, The Morning Times was just my coffee shop. Over the nextā¦
Considering the circumstances
We live in perilous times. Iām sure that has always been true, for somebody. Itās after all, why apocalyptic literature always has an audience: itās always the end of the world for someone. But here in the US, things seem particularly fragile. Rights we assumed were etched in stone have been seen as ephemeral. Elected leaders have made room for White Supremacy and Christian Nationalism to goā¦