For years, I've had a strong urge to put thoughts into writing. With three note apps on my phone and countless journals of various shapes and sizes scattered around, each vessel is filled with inspired words, minor epiphanies, frustrated questions, and cool stories.
However, until now, my writing is mostly like one of those midnight "snacks" that turns into a whole meal worth of calories: a few crackers, sliced ham from the fridge, and maybe some peanut butter spread on a banana to finish it off. Sure, it's satisfying in the moment and certainly serves its purpose, but it never makes too much sense when you review it later. Without an audience to write for, or at least an imagined one, my writing has been similarly disorganized. Sure, jotting unformed ideas is useful, but I'd also like to make complete and readable work more akin to the well-rounded dinner we should have had if we took the time to put conscious effort into our dietary decisions that evening.
Thus, the purpose of pasting these words into a tiny crevice of the internet is to encourage that quality of careful thought by way of the possibility of even one person reading them in the future. If that person does happen to find this stuff interesting or helpful, that's even better!
-Christian, May 2025