This week, glimpses from a week wrestling with good.

The Great Mystery, as I experience it, is in all things and makes itself known hour by hour. We have never had a pugilistic relationship. Instead, I struggle with good, that is, how people, including myself, behave to one another, especially online. Online is where I must sadly spend a large amount of time at the moment to make certain projects that I care about take place. Screen-life can have the effect of hollowing me out. Here are sundry recent Notes and notes from the bone marrow of my soul as I attempt to fill back up after what feels like a puncturing and the sense of having briefly become an uncanny drink to a malign and greedy being.

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This podcast was originally published here on Substack on 12th May 2025 with full transcript, footnotes, links and images.

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