it’s our second-to-final night in Ireland on this family vacation. i’m up late reading a horror novel by an Irish writer, set in Ireland. found the book in a Dublin book store. it’s a special & chilling experience to read it here in the Irish countryside. 

horror is a confronting way to gaze into the black mirror — to stare into the darker recesses of the human soul to try to understand & diagnose the sources of our greatest ills. to bring Love even to the foulest monsters—within and without—consistently feels to me like perhaps our greatest task on Earth.

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father, meditator and (freelance miniapp builder and consultant). this month working for $runner

i’d say i feel a shifting mixture of intrigued, curious, unsettled, disturbed, fascinated, spellbound, immersed, amused, angry, & sad

lotta different feelings

yes in Germany in our town thankfully i feel very safe being outside at night

what’s your prevalent sensation when reading it? do you go outside on the night? some days i feel so scared in the night here where I live. but they are being less