The Rabbit Room

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!
And I’m sure the painting is too 🙂

Oh, wow. This made me grin face-wide and tear up at the same time.
Well done.

Lovely. Maybe we write and paint to recapture that joy and freedom of childhood creativity. 

Brilliant piece, David – & it whets my appetite for “How It Went” that much more.

Really lovely piece 🙂 

This is lovely, Dawn! Thank you so much for sharing it with us.

Amen.

This is a lovely answer, and I think I would expand on it. Grief is, in some sense, the inverse of delight. I think of Jesus enduring the cross for the joy set before him (also, that line in WandaVision: “What is grief but love persevering?”) For some time, I’ve been working on a chapbook -length poetry collection that deals with infertility and fertility treatments. There’s a real sense in which the grief that has informed those poems is a burgeoning, raw, difficult delight: delight in the hope of creation, in marital love, in children (even the potential of them). I suggest that often, our grief reveals and even grows our delight through those bitter seasons you described.
 

I’m curious, Eric: why did you feel writing was a “worthless, pointless endeavor” after your last album?

Really Mind-blowing interview

Great interview. People always should speak what they think. It is hard here in Dubai, but more and more people are learning that!

“It is exceedingly hard to make good art. With very limited tools…” I’m certain you specifically meant the banjo. Thanks for this excellent combination of words. 

This was an encouragement for me today.

So good. Thank you for the encouragement.

“But this much is true: Our God-given hunger for a beautiful, well-ordered world touches every area of human endeavor. …And I trust that my code, like my poetry, echoes God’s Word that called His good world out of the formless void.”

Beautiful. Thank you for this.

This is beautiful. It resonates with what I have been reading recently in The Practice of the Presence of God: that every task we do can be done for and with the love of God. Finding the beauty and poetry of code is a wonderful way of participating in God’s good work through your own work.

!!! How wonderful this is. Thank you, Micah.

I loved this Micah!! Thanks so much for sharing this. I love your poetry too!

It is so encouraging to hear a fellow programmer/poet put these words out there. I often feel as though the work I do juxtaposes my creative expression (and I’d still argue there are aspects of it that do), but you’ve beautifully highlighted the large space where they overlap. This perspective is invaluable in the busy work world. Thank you so much for this post and the encouragement!

I love this! So often people talk about STEM disciplines and the arts as though they’re at odds with one another, or at best like they’re separate and non-overlapping magisteria. But you do a great job of highlighting the similarities and harmonies between your code-writing and your poetry, and it was a joy to read about it. There’s beauty and creativity in everything, if our eyes are open to see it.

I’ve never thought about coding like this! As a lover and writer of poetry, I’ve always associated math, STEM, etc. with robotic thinking and systems that I could never wrap my brain around. After a year and a half of dating my partner (a math major but also fellow artist and enneagram 4) I’ve found that there is so much more to “math stuff” than meets the eye. I love this fresh perspective. Also, for me at least, I constantly forget how foundational math is in music. And everything else. Math is EVERYWHERE! Wild.

Oh when, oh when will Lanier’s book be here? This post is another taste of glory–thank you!

What an absolutely beautiful story. I love how God teaches us through his sweet, fur-and-feathered creation.

This is glorious!