• Hello

    Hello! from The Book of Mormon (Original Broadway Cast Recording)


    Hello, David.

    In early 2023, I put 170 words on the screen for you explaining a writing project and my intentions for it, and how I’d use this writing project to share some updates about my life with you in essays and songs. I’m typing over those words right now. I never got around to doing what I intended to do, which probably means I should instead intend to do something I’ll actually do.

    So here we are. I’m not going to wait until I write 10 essays with 10 related songs and then and only then pass it off to you for reading and listening. I’m just going to start writing, and telling you what’s been up, and maybe a song will help that along and maybe it won’t, but at least I’ll have started writing and sharing. And that’s something I’ve been needing to do since at least early 2023.

    I chose three words at the beginning of this calendar year to serve as guideposts: progress, politics, and present. As in striving for, not backing away from, and needing to be more. So it is progress that compelled me to finally sit down, replace those 170 words with 220 new ones, and actually get started.

    Don’t know where it’ll end, but I guess that’s the point.

    -Matthew

  • Test Headphones

  • Our training needs survey comes down today. I posted a reminder to Teams. It went a little something like this, and included a text-based call to action…and a bad pun.

  • Jesus, Take the Wheel (and hit ‘em with the car)

    And back up to make sure. And then hit ‘em again.

    “In December, Trump promised: “Upon taking office, I will create a new federal task force on fighting anti-Christian bias to be led by a fully reformed Department of Justice.” 

    What that might look like became clear this week when the Alabama Supreme Court decided in a wrongful death suit resulting from the accidental destruction of embryos that were part of an in vitro fertilization (IVF) process…that fertilized human eggs have the same status as children. Chief Justice Tom Parker declared in a concurring opinion that the people of Alabama have adopted the “theologically based view” that “life cannot be wrongfully destroyed without incurring the wrath of a holy God.”

    About 2% of U.S. births are a product of IVF.”

    -Heather Cox-Richardson, February 21, 2024

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