I will never believe that protests are just “virtue signaling” or “performative.” Many of these protests are also actively blocking I*E, breaking up any forms of militarization, sheltering and providing for at risk families,

There is no safe or sane world you can give “better training” to armed militarized federal agents who clap after k*llong a man filming them, masked N*zi wh*te supremacists, cosplay cowboy colonizers who teargas six year olds,

A racist once told my mother to her face that she was stupid because of her accent, my mother said “I can speak two languages and I’m smart in Korean. So that makes you stupid AND racist.” Bringing that up again for reasons.

I grieve every elder and mentor and leader that ever I trusted who signed off on this f*scist admin. That grief hurts. It’s an angry and exhausting grief. I believe they’re being deceived and I won’t give up on them, but I can’t be safe with them in the same room.

You cannot claim you are pro-life if you claim you are pro-ICE.

“History weeps as it retraces the parabola.” — Yi Sang, 1910-1937, Korean poet and revolutionary under colonial rule

I’m learning that the real ones have always been real ones. And if they messed up, they always apologized, made amends, dug deep, did better. That’s what real ones do.

I’m very honored & happy to be interviewed by @npr.org to share about my hospital chaplaincy work & why it’s so hard to talk about death, dying, & grief. NPR has always been my dream interview. Thank you to the amazing team who made me sound smarter than I really am. 🫶🙏 www.npr.org/2025/12/22/n...

J.S. Park helps patients and their families cope with death every day as a hospital chaplain. He explains what to expect as a person is dying, and how to reckon with uncomfortable feelings about death. n.pr/3MQXhKy

My heart is with every soul who did not make it through this year, every child and mother and father and sibling buried under rubble, every family detained and separated and starved, every student l*nched or k*lled in another preventable sh**ting,

“Financially devastating but morally exhilarating” goes so hard.

I’m grieving so many people I had trusted as elders and mentors and leaders, but showed themselves as g*nocide apologists and viciously against immigrants and children. I have hope for them, I won’t give up on them, but I cannot go with them, and I will not find safety with them in the same room.

One of the many reasons AI can't produce good writing is it can't hate its own writing. It can't think to itself "Maybe I'm illiterate" during the writing process. And that's essential

Beautiful interview with @jspark3000.bsky.social How to cope with 'death anxiety,' according to a hospital chaplain www.npr.org/2025/12/30/n...

I just finished writing my third book and I’m proud and happy to say that not a single word of the book was generated by AI. Neither were my other books. I also disabled AI search on my browser so I had to dig into the results any time I searched through them. This is

“The death of truth is the ultimate victory of evil. When truth leaves us, when we let it slip away, when it is ripped from our hands, we become vulnerable to the appetite of whatever monster screams the loudest.” — Andor, season 2 ep 9, Senator Mon Mothma

What I learned from how children were treated through Sandy Hook, Uvalde, Palestine, church abuse, antivaxers, child labor, the Epstein files, is that no elected leader is going to save us. We are the ones who have to keep us safe. From them.

It’s the guns. And it’s unchecked power. And fomenting bigotry. And lack of action. And enabling monsters. And demonizing victims. And cult allegiance. And gloryifying violence. And turning away.

“They have no shame, do they? They don't even bother to lie badly anymore. I suppose that's the final humiliation.” — Andor, season 2 ep 7, Senator Dasi Oran to Senator Mon Mothma

You would have been sixteen today. Miss you everyday, Rosco. ❤️‍🩹🐾

Shout-out to every person still creating and writing and drawing and singing and choreographing and building and sculpting and imagining in this anxious and overwhelming time.

I wonder how the good folks at The Onion are doing after they saw the Pantone color of the year, but seriously on top of everything else I’m praying for them right now.

Does anyone else avoid AI videos and click right out of them? I try to avoid AI videos as much as I avoid scrolling any type of reels feeds because, well I don’t know how to put this exactly, but it just feels wrong for my brain.

My book on grief is on sale today for only 1.99 in ebook. This is the lowest it’s ever been. 🫶❤️‍🩹 www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CD...

“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” — Arundhati Roy

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.” — James Baldwin, No Name in the Street (1972)

I’ll never forget reading this the other day: “Faith without works is dead children.” 😮‍💨😮‍💨😮‍💨💔

“I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence.” — Toni Morrison, The Nation, Mar. 23, 2015

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.” — Toni Morrison, The Nation, Mar. 23, 2015

I don’t think we need conspiracy theories anymore. It’s just all out in the open for everyone to see. We’ve been had, run, and fleeced at every turn.

I’m not a conspiracy theorist but here is my conspiracy theory: I’m not sure Kimmel was meant to be canceled. It seems like an intentional false flag to “reverse course” and give us enough yield to relax. They know boycotts can be fickle.

“People are afraid to be pried loose from their ignorance.” — Maya Angelou, “One on One,” interview with Greg Jackson (1983)

I hate that one day I’ll have to explain to my children this entire era of American Christianity and its absolute absurdity and hypocrisy. I hope I’ll get to explain it in past tense.

I saw this comment recently and it still rings true: “First they came for the journalists and I did not speak out because no one knew what happened.”

I have been at hundreds of deathbeds and I have never once expected anyone to mourn their abuser. There may be rage, or relief, or a long exhale. But there is zero obligated sorrow for someone who embodied tyranny and suffocation over a family for years, for a lifetime.

After you have wounded me, I make a choice to keep my humanity by seeing yours. I will not allow your desecration of me to desecrate how I see me or you.

Five years ago I almost started a podcast. I went to therapy instead. I still don’t have a podcast. I made two good decisions. ❤️‍🩹

Idiocracy is when those in charge perfectly overlap between incompetence and malice. Recklessly ignorant and indulgently destructive. Too stupid to know they’re stupid and too malicious to care.

A little off topic but does everyone have a texting friend? For memes and talking wild and being completely unhinged and yourself? I have a few and it’s seriously therapeutic. Hard to imagine going through a day without them, especially now.

My book on grief is 16 months old and it’s only $1.99 right now in ebook. ❤️‍🩹 www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0CD...

I saw this in a newspaper comic strip once: If you don’t learn ̶f̶r̶o̶m̶ ̶h̶i̶s̶t̶o̶r̶y̶ you’re doomed ̶t̶o̶ ̶r̶e̶p̶e̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶t̶

This is one of my favorite poems, by the late Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, called “Think of Others.”

“I’ve never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure.” — Clarence Darrow, attorney who defended Tennessee teacher in 1925 for teaching on evolution #JamesDobson

Please take this from me, a hospital chaplain who has sat with hundreds of deathbeds in the last ten years: In the end, we really only have each other. And we really only have a breath and then we’re gone. Life is as fast as a spoken word, so be gentle.

This is (not) a hot take: In any situation where children are harmed, I will always be on the side of the children.

I was interviewed by the inimitable Lisa Ling for a feature on my hospital chaplaincy work and on grief, faith, and hope. Thank you Lisa and for all who have kindly been alongside, most especially my amazing coworkers. ♥️🙏 youtu.be/RUVheWGBFd0?...

I was interviewed by the inimitable Lisa Ling for a feature on my hospital chaplaincy work and on grief, faith, and hope. Thank you Lisa and for all who have kindly been alongside, most especially my amazing coworkers. ♥️🙏 youtu.be/RUVheWGBFd0?...

We cannot say we didn’t know. 🍉🗣️ Reposting: Eight initiatives to feed, clothe, and shelter Palestinians under siege. www.instagram.com/p/DMVpejexbin/

“How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been; how gloriously different are the saints.” — C.S. Lewis