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The sun has risen, but you don’t wake them because when they are asleep they are not hungry and they are in a better world. In the mornings, my own mother used to throw up the shades and start singing. And I realize now she could do this because there was breakfast waiting for us in the kitchen and our backpacks were lined up by the door ready for school. But you have no food to give your children, and they have no place to learn or play with friends. Their bodies are dwindling, and the world does not know. And you, how much of yourself have you lost to this war? How much have you carved away to preserve them? How many of your dreams have you let mingle with the dust? And how many men have taken advantage of the chaos to use your body and ignore your soul? The world does not know you, but on the broken wings of some feeble prayer, your story made it to me. And I am looking in your eyes as best I can from oceans away, and I will not look away—for you could have been my mother. To a Man Like My Father in Yemen, When the bombs and gunfire wake your children and they cling to you shaking, what do you tell them? When I was afraid in the nighttime, my father would tell me, “You will be okay.” And for the most part, I believed him because my fears were imaginary. When your children are hungry and beg you for food, what do you tell them? When I was hungry, my father would always share what he had. But you have nothing to share. When your wife looks at you, craving an answer, can you meet her eyes? When you lie awake at night and the question returns—does the world not care—what do you answer yourself? Here in America, I live with the assumption that someone will always care about me, that if I’m ever in need, someone will help. But you can’t honestly tell yourself that because for the last five years it has not been true. And today, I’d imagine, you can barely stand because all your pain is multiplied by the pain of those you love. Your hunger times your children’s hunger. Your hopelessness times your wife’s despair. Your fear times your children’s terror. Your secret tears times all of theirs. And you, like my father, will own it all until the end, whatever the end may be. To a Girl Like My Sister in Yemen, Do you feel like a person anymore? Have you been spared any of the things I’ve read? In the worst place in the world to be a woman, does anyone ever give you honor or show you love? I watched with joyful tears as my sister got married this summer. She married the man she loves, and she was not unloaded as a burden but given as a gift. But you, did your family have any other choice but to marry you? And are you old enough to be someone’s wife? Did anyone ever teach you to read or write? Has anyone given you the means to be more than a sexual mechanism? And if this war ends and your hunger finally leaves, will your life be any better? I hope an angel of mercy feeds you bread, and I hope that they see you are starving for more than food. I’m going to see my sister next weekend, and when I see her bright spirit, I will cry to think she could have been you. To a Boy Becoming a Man, Like My Brother, in Yemen, You were a boy when this war began, the last time you ate till your stomach was full. And now, five years later, you are almost a man. But the last five years were not spent learning or growing. They have been spent working to feed your family, and maybe even fighting. You have not given your thoughts to dreams or aspirations, but to survival. You have not been taught how to make peace, but how to make war. You have not been encouraged to love a girl, but to avoid love like a liability. My brother began college a week ago, and already he has all the things that have been stolen from you. He has visions for the future, professors teaching him to enforce justice, and curious siblings asking him about the girls on campus. But these things are only fantasies you cherished as a boy. This war has built you into a man by chiseling away the parts that make you human. It has turned you into someone driven by impulses—hunger, lust, fear—rather than someone guided by his heart and his mind. And though you have survived, the boy from five years ago has not. To a 15-Year-Old Boy Like My Brother in Yemen, What do you enjoy? Who do you hope to be someday? Does anyone ask you these questions anymore? My brother is your age, and he enjoys soccer and Instagram pages full of mind-boggling facts. People ask him what he wants to be, and even though he might not know, he is encouraged to dream. I’m sure that you dream too when the hunger keeps you awake at night. I’m sure a beautiful world fills your head—a place of safety and happiness and purpose. I pray the last five years have not destroyed your capacity to hope for these things. But these things must be secondary when you don’t know if you will eat today. When a cup of clean water is a novelty. When your friends are dying of curable diseases. And maybe you even feel guilty for wishing for more when all some people want is to live. That is the curse of war and famine—they make desire selfish and happiness an offense. But I want you to hope as much as I want your stomach to be full. To Someone Like Me in Yemen, You lie awake at night thinking about me, or some version of me—safe, healthy, well-fed, privileged . . . selfish. And you are right. But several weeks ago I heard your story, and now I lie awake imagining you, or some version of you—endangered, sick, starving, dying . . . pleading. And now that I know who you are and what you are suffering, I must choose to be the priest or the Samaritan. And though I’d claim to be the latter, I have to admit the truth. The truth is you don’t matter to me like you should. I’ve seen your hunger, but I don’t feel it myself. I’ve read about your sickness, but I am well. I’ve even prayed for your deliverance, but then I forget. My own plans and my own dreams crowd you out of my heart and my mind. But yours is not a story to sigh at, and you are not a statistic to overlook. You are not a stranger on a distant shore whose life has no relation to mine. You are my brother and my sister, someone who shares my youth and my hopes. Your hunger rightly holds a claim on my cabinets full of food. Your poverty suitably demands a share of my wealth. Your pain fittingly appeals that I spill my own blood. Your skin lawfully begs that I hold you in my arms. And your eyes justly cry that I meet them with my own. So now I say as best I can that you matter to me. And to the Man who left his wealth, wrapped himself in your skin, spilled his own blood, and said: come to me. https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/jz9f1tzjq2wymbkhug02vao9qgijky monthly 0.5 2023-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1679769719062-JHTXVNCWE938MFT9QJYS/IMG_6982.JPG Journal - Ode to Notre-Dame https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/dxntu6yg4qd6ja7zzqhaokdz4pek3f monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/52d308b6-7bda-4aee-b301-beca94c94a57/IMG_3851+%282%29+-+Copy.jpg Journal - On Time https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/66vfn657esbcpjhqhgvjxxlbcuvmmo monthly 0.5 2023-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/fc4f453c-0d49-4b21-86d4-edc557461e0f/IMG_3707.JPG Journal - Afternoon Reflections https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/r4fedve9v8df7vstop18oss9bmvqsu monthly 0.5 2023-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/c161a694-6776-4ee8-a058-89b538df7d2c/IMG_3614+%281%29.JPG Journal - Beyond Ourselves https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/dm91nczwpxpk4l1j8oxjnjv981yllg monthly 0.5 2023-03-18 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/242befb0-423b-4d01-8a1b-6b2a27d41eea/IMG_3445.JPG Journal - Not Ready - from 08.10.18 Today, I saw a realtor pull up to my favorite place on earth. She drove right past it at first because the bend in the road means nothing to her and she has no context for anything that has ever happened there. I watched as she staked her little flag in the front yard like she was marking her territory, and two words seized my mind: not ready. https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/v7uxcuzcu750tqvahhjfwznf3uaw2z monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/dea32112-2eb5-4434-af8e-793ceb50f90a/IMG_2880+%281%29.JPG Journal - New Year’s Eve https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/24gkjm5uv35z9dliyd51239fplt6mw monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/4eb82ed2-3539-4a4e-9b27-4b9d7cc3af96/IMG_2672.JPG Journal - For Egypt - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/evening-blues monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/8130a819-75a4-4126-97f1-e71e306e1799/IMG_2582.JPG Journal - Evening Blues - from 10.23.17 Lift the needle from your blue, blue record and wipe the warm tears dripping slowly from your chin to the page. Watch the drops melt the letters and curl the ink into a brand new story you could never have imagined. Ease one inch at a time into the evening—it was made for you. Wrap yourself in your own arms and don't worry that you're alone. Look up at the clouds and see all the colors of the day being poured like a thousand cans of paint over the edge of the world. The day is being dissolved into the endless ocean of time, but it will return tomorrow like never before. https://www.penmanspost.com/episodes/little-bird monthly 0.5 2023-03-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/96cca7ae-63f4-4dd5-b548-2839fca26e2a/IMG_2154+%282%29.JPG Journal - Little Bird - from 04.05.17 Little Bird, Your broken body interrupted my morning walk today. I had to stop and look at you because your death felt like an injustice--why would such an innocent creature be allowed to fall into the crushing pavement, into the oblivion of the forgotten, whose lives no one remembers? Little wings, did you know that 20 children and 52 adults fell to the ground in Syria yesterday? They lay "writhing, choking, gasping, foaming," poisoned from the inside out by evil men. Like you, not many people watched them die, and no one will remember them in a few short weeks. Little heart, did you know that at the end of many days I fall to my bed and feel unremembered? That's why I stopped to cry for you this morning—I was really crying for myself and for a humanity that lies shattered on the earth. In chapel today, we sang about our God who is a great Savior, and you swooped into my mind, perching there with every doubt I have. But, little bird, did you know that Jesus' very own words say that you did not "fall to the ground outside your Father's care"? That those Syrian children were in God's care as they died? That I can never escape His love? I think you were put there to remind me, little bird. 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These architectural renderings of my childhood home flood me with nostalgia every time I look at them. Plus, I got to support a friend of mine who works part time as a custom framer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/e54d6ba4-a0b7-49ca-a2fc-bd2373266ac2/IMG_7589.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Get Over Your (Lack of) Shelves If you don’t have room to hang a shelf or don’t want to deal with drywall anchors and heavy-duty screws, find a neat way to display items on a surface you already have. I created my own “bookshelf” on my dresser with free-standing books and a pair of onyx bookends. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/282080f4-56b8-4182-873c-22e54ab6e832/IMG_7104+-+Copy.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Corner Concerns In an ideal world, no bed is ever put in a corner. Corner beds are a pain to make, and they immediately set a room off balance. But I needed to maximize the functionality of this small space. When I first moved in, I insisted on the bed coming off the largest wall and acting as the focal point of the room. But after months of feeling cramped, I acquiesced and pushed it into the corner. The room instantly felt more spacious and breathable. Light bedding keeps this corner from feeling too heavy, and a rug that fills the room acts as a counterbalance to this large piece of furniture. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708483397370-28IJHHE04BTEI02CSZCE/IMG_1207.JPG Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708483423368-8L735S3ETCMJ5RXO0YF9/IMG_7565.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485364428-9G267JL6JMG0C8XAKSPK/IMG_7555.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708404526391-GAFVCSADOO16K7OQVQW8/IMG_7104.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708404525941-8CXTJG9FSNT1RUC8WJK0/IMG_7074.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708404516468-TF08MRX57MJPE8BWD7QO/IMG_7051.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485388951-2S34IGID03TMRURKZBOD/IMG_7622.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485377253-268B6VWYH5XFRC6CU3YR/IMG_7591.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485907901-IOMD0I7B7JQ0PPV1S6XS/IMG_7595.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485908271-A0RETX8HPA0UG3I6WFV4/IMG_7589.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485389680-VEERULN2BAIMK54JYTIZ/IMG_7625.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485378745-5GAKNWD1DHFCVNHIQO63/IMG_7610.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708404546557-NVUW2ZAICXRQO2GP9JQN/IMG_7314.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708404548098-0ZU9GAEJFKDYKZUV753E/IMG_7338.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485395065-BO8P0UQU94NMKZVN6533/IMG_7634.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708485849912-4B1XJ278NXZ7BSQFH7EU/IMG_7643.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708483117115-6NSECQUQEUFEKN5MJC6C/IMG_1107.JPG Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708483120297-CDSJKS32IEA9ZQUDTZVY/IMG_7074.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/ebaeaa65-30c9-4381-9944-1ba15d10011d/IMG_7068.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Contrast Is Key The dark, large-scale pattern of the rug contrasts with the light, small scale-pattern of the comforter and anchors an otherwise light-colored room. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/71860f28-0ac1-478b-96c4-34bbcf37cfbe/IMG_7258.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - The Lighting on the Wall If you’re looking to supplement the overhead lighting in your space, or if you don’t have room for lamps, consider a wall-mounted reading light. They save space, require no wiring, and leave behind only a couple screw holes. They also come in many styles. This one swivels to make reading in bed easy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/652b0fe9-c290-4e0b-959a-8e74d690fe06/IMG_7534.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Tassels Equal Hassles Choose a rug without tassels to make vacuuming and mopping easier. This will also give your room a more streamlined appearance overall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708483769595-OFNL955FPOQ9E8BVBS7Q/IMG_1176.JPG Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/1708483259703-L4UDKLS3E49PJ4MD0LLX/IMG_7555.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/ef03526d-ee5e-4b63-8bf6-b4db03d38384/IMG_7109.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - One-Hit Wonder Instead of a series of hooks, consider a hook rack. It’s easier to ensure a rack is level, and it will leave far fewer nail holes to patch later. This streamlined rack I ordered online holds hats, coats, bags, and pretty much anything else I need it to. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/b78a10ca-2d34-43de-93d2-e13178f3f2bf/IMG_7643.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - It Takes All Kinds Many different materials create a well-rounded vignette—wooden credenza, brass lamp, leather jewelry box, stone bookends. These harder elements also play off the softer elements in the room to create a space that’s masculine but not austere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/8d0a6cc9-6e06-4eff-82eb-f527b794efe1/IMG_7610.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Rooms Are Related Invest in spaces connected to other spaces. Create a vignette in one room that provides a vista for an adjoining room. This doubles the value of your investment as it can be enjoyed in both spaces. When the door is open, my room is visible from the moment you walk in the house. I wanted it to look warm and inviting from all the way down the hall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/94db3cad-2a75-4f53-b7c5-5443b27e1266/IMG_7595.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Make Connections Repeated elements keep the variety from feeling chaotic. The bedding, rug, nightstand, and hamper all belong to the same color family. The black reading light references the black hook rack and the black elements of my clothing rack. The wooden picture frames reference the credenza. The brass clasp on the jewelry box references the lamp. The bookends may seem like an outlier, but the colors in the stone reference the yellowed blueprints and the orange throw on the bed. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/63d70cc485aa7959f6ce195f/a1fb4f72-4b2f-4754-9e07-640a910b54e4/IMG_7559.jpg Post - A Room of One’s Own - Check Your Foundation Invest in a rug that is the appropriate size for your room. A properly scaled rug helps to visually unify a room and group furniture. On the other hand, a rug that is too small makes a room feel cluttered and disjointed. 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