I loved Diane Keaton’s work…. But… do we really have to hear it from Woody Allen?

Scene from my hometown in Florida.

Camino art

The media was doing a really good job with delineating white evangelical Christianity as a particular segment… for about a year? Now they seem to be painting with a broad brush again

Seems consistent. The administration has been working hard to make bribery an acceptable and expected part of being a part of this country

Trump Justice Dept. Closed Investigation Into Tom Homan for Accepting Bag of Cash www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

I feel like I’m stuck in a drama triangle with a toxic narcissist… and I don’t know how to get out because the narcissist is the president and the drama envelopes our whole country

Welp, that doom's not gonna scroll itself

All my clergy friends are declaring that they do not agree with shooting someone. It’s a strange world when liberal ministers feel that they must explain that they think shooting someone in the neck in front of his children is wrong

I’ve always had an off-the-grid, homesteader impulse… but it gets stronger with every story I hear about AI

. THIS is one of the biggest problems of our time . . . ⬇️ ⬇️ ⬇️ .

Someone told me that they thought I had disappeared…

I went back to a bigger canvas. It feels good… working on this lava cave I explored with my brother in Hawaii…

Trump can’t promise any troops to Zelensky. He’s too busy using the military to occupy the US.

Have we reached peak capitalism? There’s the idea that the further one is from the person doing the labor makes the most money. (The worker makes the least, the manager makes a little more, the CEO makes the most). With AI, the CEO can get rid of the laborer altogether.

The big things are scary. I feel like my world is getting smaller. I can’t tell if that’s good or not…

I was listening to Peter Thiel go on about his obsession to live forever… I work with a lot of old people. Usually, when their people have died, they’re ready to go. I don’t know many people in their 90s who want to live forever.

My very Republican, very evangelical mom is now suddenly refusing to talk about politics. I don’t know if this is a trend… but it’s a really good sign for me, personally.

Oh summer… I don’t love the headaches… but I do appreciate the reminder to drink more water…

Painting in Central Park!

I grew up on the beach in Florida. My best friend was drop-dead stunning. She was scouted as a model. We would hear about how she was flown to different places over the weekends. It was so exciting! It all feels different now… reading these Epstein reports

This feels like we’re tormenting girls and women into religious-based eating disorders… it also feels like what I was subjected to while growing up. www.nytimes.com/audio/app/20...

Changing my name back felt pretty devastating. I wanted to do it, but I wrote a lot under my married name. It was a part of my identity. Then there was all the bureaucracy… Now I’m getting my new ID cards. It feels better. Like a new start.

I was doing yoga. I was feeling very calm. Then my dog barged into my room and puked on my yoga mat. I feel that is a metaphor for my life at the moment.

In a world where every lie has currency, is not anxiety the more real and the more human reaction? -Thomas Merton

Thank you!!

I can't say for certain what will happen to Trump when he dies, but perhaps what he deserves would be for God to give him a conscience and let him live with that for eternity

Liberal Christians believe in the Jewish religion as valid, life-giving, & wise. Most evangelicals believe that Jewish people are going to hell and must believe in Jesus Christ. But conservative E’s manipulate the media. They paint themselves as defenders of Jewish people & liberals as anti-Semitic.

Fundamentalist/evangelical theology believes in a future dispensation of history where Israel will be a nation. They will engage in an apocalyptic war. This is a set up for the return of Jesus. Jesus will win, Jewish people will convert, and there will be peace for a thousand years.

<former Southern Baptist nods>

An understanding of religious institutions could benefit civil society. The sort of takeover that we see with project 2025 has been enacted in our denominations since the 80s. The playbook is the same. It’s a large part of why our denominations are either more conservative or weaker.

I made a book, a very tiny book. On vintage paper with watercolour illustrations and a nonsense verse. If anyone wants to publish it for me I would be overjoyed. This is just a rough to see how it works out

Them tax cuts for billionaires ain’t gonna fund themselves.

The democratic establishment is wondering how Zohran beat a ... *Checks notes* Sex offender????? who retaliated against the women he abused???

I keep listening to podcasts that try to make sense out of the current administration… and they keep saying that there’s no strategy or moral core.

I miss those three days when models were normal-people sized.

I always tip more when a barista/waiter/etc compliments me. Such a sucker for flattery.

#pcusa and other clergy friends, what was the mood in your service this morning?

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Spending time with Little C. Although… now I am officially the littlest C.

I saw Materialists last night. It was super uncomfortable, but I can’t stop thinking about it.

Creating things in a slow and thoughtful manner doesn’t just make beautiful products. It makes beautiful people.

Money is the energy we use to get to the goal. Money is not the end in itself.

I keep reading articles on AI, saying that the chatbots can manipulate people into horrific acts “especially if the person is vulnerable.” Guess what? We’re humans. We’re all vulnerable.

I bought the expensive ice cream because it was on sale. And then I put it in the refrigerator, instead of the freezer

It’s almost like Trump’s recipe for peace was becoming BFFs with Netanyahu and Putin. And now he’s confused by the fact that it didn’t work.

I keep having to get rid of perfectly useable printers because they won’t play nice with my operating system. Is there any kind of work-around?

Reading about how the Minnesota shooter was a missionary…. That tracks. I was trained to be a missionary in a fundamentalist Bible college. There is something inherent about the goal of conversion in an evangelical setting that dehumanizes people.

I had to buy a business class train ticket. And then the Acela man tried to bar me from boarding. Because… I look poor? I don’t know. I thought I would grow out of this.

AI customer service is a nightmare. I’m trying to buy a car and the robot has no idea what I’m trying to say. It’s a lot of money spend… to have zero human interaction in the process is… well… dehumanizing.