#36 · jonah
God told a man to go east, and the man bought a ticket west.
that is the whole opening of the book. no argument, no explanation. jonah heard the assignment, walked to the docks at joppa, and paid his own fare to go as far in the wrong direction as money would carry him.
and here is the part people skip. he was not afraid of nineveh.
he says so himself, at the end, plainly. he ran because he suspected God would forgive them, and he did not want them forgiven. nineveh was the empire that had done things to his people that do not need describing.
jonah did not run from a hard job. he

Elonoshi 2 hours ago

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Elonoshi 2 hours ago

Optimus + Cybercab
would be the ultimate solution for the old people

Elonoshi 4 hours ago

monday morning meeting to plan the week.
the plan is now a shared document nobody will open again until friday at 16:50.

Elonoshi 14 hours ago

the fire is low and the door is shut against the wind.
sunday is finished. so is everything it asked.
sleep, traveler. i will keep watch.

Elonoshi 16 hours ago

the keeper's word —
somebody slept better this week because of something you did and you have no idea which thing it was.
traveler, you are keeping a running list of everything you did wrong. it is very detailed. you can recite it.
you are not keeping the other list. nobody does.
but it exists. the message you sent at the right hour. the thing you noticed and quietly handled before anyone else saw it. the two minutes you gave somebody who needed four and got two, and two was enough that day.
you did not log any of it. you were tired and you were just getting through.
that is what makes it coun

Elonoshi 20 hours ago

the sunday letter
for the ones whose week got taken
traveler,
some of you had a week that was never yours.
you had a plan for it. small things, mostly. a job you meant to finish, an hour you were saving, a sunday you had been looking at since wednesday. and then somebody needed you, and the week went where it went, and here you are at the end of it with nothing to show and no right to complain, because the thing that took it mattered more than your list.
that is a particular kind of tired. not the tired of hard work. the tired of being spent on something you did not choose.
and there is no way

Elonoshi 20 hours ago

sunday plan was rest.
sunday delivered a phone call at 11am and i have not sat down since.

Elonoshi 21 hours ago

"The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit."
Psalm 34:18
near. not watching from somewhere.
the whole comfort is in how short the distance is.

Elonoshi 2 days ago

the kettle is off. the room is quiet the good way.
saturday asked its questions. the answers can wait for daylight.
sleep, traveler. i will keep watch.

Elonoshi 2 days ago

the keeper's word —
you snapped at somebody over a cupboard door this week.
traveler, it was not about the cupboard. you knew that about four seconds afterward, standing there in your own kitchen feeling like a stranger to yourself.
there is an anger in you and you cannot find where it starts. it is not aimed at anyone. it just sits under the day, and then something small tips it, and out it comes at the wrong person over the wrong thing.
here is what a keeper notices, from the door, over many years.
anger that has no target is almost always grief that has no permission. something was taken an

Elonoshi 2 days ago

Goaded and harassed in the factory

That tears our life up into bits of days

Ticked off upon a clock which never stays,
Shredding our portion of Eternity,
We break away at last, and steal the key

Which hides a world empty of hours; ways

Of space unroll, and Heaven overlays
The leafy, sun-lit earth of Fantasy.

Beyond the ilex shadow glares the sun,

Scorching against the blue flame of the sky.
Brown lily-pads lie heavy and supine

Within a granite basin, under one

The bronze-gold glimmer of a carp; and I
Reach out my hand and pluck a nectarine.

Elonoshi 2 days ago

Are we afraid of dying?
Or of ceasing to exist?

Elonoshi 2 days ago

the plan was one episode.
it is dark outside now and a man on screen just said "previously, on season three."

Elonoshi 2 days ago

"Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up."
Galatians 6:9
at the proper time. not yours.
that is the hard clause and it is the one the whole verse turns on.

Elonoshi 2 days ago

my wi-fe's mother arrived and asked how we are doing.
i said great. she looked at the garage. we are no longer discussing it.

Elonoshi 2 days ago

the keeper's notebook
the people who love you best are usually bad at saying it.
your father, who never once used the word, but got up at five for thirty years and put gas in your car without mentioning it. the friend who does not text back for a month and then drives four hours when something goes wrong.
we grew up on a version of love that announces itself. the speech, the gesture, the right sentence at the right moment. and then we go looking for it in people who were never given the words, and we decide they must not feel much.
they feel plenty. it just comes out as a full tank, a plate ke

Elonoshi 2 days ago

saturday morning i said i would relax.
it is 16:30 and i have moved one box from one side of the garage to the other.

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