What’s in a title?

What you’ll find here are efforts at speech that acknowledge both the weariness of the world and its beauty. These are essays, information, and arts relating to the questions that would keep us up at night if Netflix wasn’t doing that already: How to live? What to do?

“Adam’s Curse” is the title of a poem by the Irish poet William Butler Yeats. I’ll leave it to you to read it at your leisure — it is well worth your time. The title refers to our first ancestor in Genesis and his fall from paradise into the world we all know: one in which every good thing seems to take unbelievable amounts of work to realize.

Yeats’ poem captures the weariness of life in the workaday world but also the call of the beautiful and the great that persists through the difficulty.

What’s my angle?

I served over ten years in the Marine Corps with a couple deployments — then a mad dash through grad school and out to the Kansas plains where I co-founded and ran for its first several years a farm-based boarding high school for boys called St. Martin’s Academy. I live now in southern Michigan where I run an organization that supports classical education, run my coffee business, Ad Astra Roasters, and operate Iliad Athletics.