Tag: berkeley
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down by the bay
Ten years ago, I graduated from Carolina and moved clear across the continent by way of God’s surprise miraculous provision. This was in the hipster days when only ‘early adapters’ used instagram … and the peak of blogosphere content consisted primarily of dslr photos and tiny sans serif type face. Good times and an era […]
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THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF BIRDS
preface · part one · part two · part three · part four v. timing The last time Blake and I hung out was on my twenty-sixth birthday. It was a Saturday and we spent six hours snuggling for what felt like forty-five minutes. But that wasn’t the last time we saw each other… A few months before […]
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THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF BIRDS
preface · part one · part two · part three iv. the beautiful truth about abstinence After about nine months of working at the t-shirt company, I blew that popsicle stand and embarked on a journey of back-and-forth employment between The City and The East Bay, and began attending a 3ish year old church plant in Downtown […]
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THE CHOREOGRAPHY OF BIRDS
preface · part one · part two iii. looking for shelter For a while I consistently wrote that I arrived in California “via shipwreck”. I wrote it on tumblr posts and a myriad of online ‘profiles’ – attempting to etch out marketability for the tragedy I was trying to recover from. Not only was I an unemployed, homeless, […]
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more may days
For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation for all people, training us to renounce ungodliness and worldy passions, and to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives in the present age, waiting for our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ, who gave Himself for us […]