Current activities & areas of focus as of
Activities
- Testing out a second blog, more frequent/informal ideas here: ajz.pagecord.com. Might try to incorporate it into this main blog in some way.
- Leading an online group discussion on Joy and Delight through Art House Dallas.
- Midway through The Artist's Way. It's been a good journey so far.
- Playing with my son if I'm not reading or writing.
Books I'm working through
- The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
- Technopoly by Neil Postman
- No-Drama Discipline by Drs. Daniel Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- Galahad and the Grail by Malcolm Guite
Topics and books I want to go into more deeply in 2026
- Work and it's relationship to the Machine (as in Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine)
- Josef Peiper's Leisure, The Basis of Culture
- Sabbath rest
- Ivan Illich's Tools for Conviviality
- Hemisphere differences of the brain a la Iain McGilchrist's The Master and His Emissary
- Wendell Berry’s "Think Little" essay
- Art and attention
- Continual focus on how all of this forms us spiritually
I feel like all of those things go together in some way.
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