Aaron Zavala

A thought I ponder on every now and again as it relates to our formation in Jesus. It's a rough sketch, an outline of an idea. In quantum entanglement, two atoms are linked to one another across time and space. When one was observed in o… https://aaronjz.com/discipleship-is-like-quantum-entanglement

A beautiful paragraph opening one of the chapters from The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett:One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and then one is quite sure one is going to live forever and ever and ever. One knows it sometim… https://aaronjz.com/246877aa

"Yesterday" cover by Jacob Collier. So, so good!https://youtube.com/shorts/Nj6e09qBDbk?si=BG9CsbmU8rXWXw4Y https://aaronjz.com/5ea049bf

Happy First Day of Fall! 🍂 The first song I listened to today that always reminds me of a cozy fall day: Jacob Collier's "Little Blue." A cozy poem read and shared by my friend Joe Chambers: "The Patience of Ordinary Things" by Pat Schneider. I'm going to buy a bag o… https://aaronjz.com/8eb05158

We are being prepared for eternity every time we behold beauty.– Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild https://aaronjz.com/929abf51

It saddens me to hear that Wendell Berry died yesterday. He was 92 years old. I have been moved and changed by his works of poetry, fiction, and essays. One of my favorite poems by him is "How to Be a Poet." I committed this poem to memory sometime last year, and it alw… https://aaronjz.com/70cd1df6

If I dieWith a songIn my heartWill the musicWake me up? https://aaronjz.com/if-i-die

||: REJOICE :|| - Phil. 4:4 https://aaronjz.com/463488de

Beginning Liturgies of the Wild by Martin Shaw today. Just finished the introduction. Shaw says a full-grown, mature human being is someone whose soul has been shaped by both story and place. So this book he's written (and narrates) is meant to lead us toward the wisdom… https://aaronjz.com/a2e5e067

I've been thinking about my social media usage in light of a few posts: Harrison's post, There Will Never Be a Version of Twitter that’s Healthy for Me Olly Headey's posts, Minimalising and The urge to be anti-social Alan Jacobs post commenting on Ezra Klein's opinion… https://aaronjz.com/12dccba7

A Morning Prayer via my favorite devotional, "The Rhythm of Life": “Lord, be with us to guide us within us to strengthen us without us to protect us above us to raise us beneath us to uphold us before us to lead us behind us to guard us ever about us this day and evermore this day and evermore."

Think little https://aaronjz.com/think-little

Write yourself into a new way of thinking https://aaronjz.com/write-yourself-into-a-new-way-of-thinking

I just finished Malcolm Guite's Galahad and the Grail (https://store.rabbitroom.com/products/merlins-isle) is this morning. I was so moved by the beauty of the ending, the way it weaves its way with the beginning lines of the prologue: "Poet, take up the tale!" Incred... https://aaronjz.com/6bcef067

Working my way through The Last Battle (https://bookshop.org/p/books/the-last-battle-full-color-collector-s-edition-rpkg-c-s-lewis/8efe2e53b07bb2e0?ean=9780064409414&next=t) now by C.S. Lewis, the seventh and final book in the Chronicles of Narnia series. So good. I h... https://aaronjz.com/b88b84e1

Loving Galahad and the Grail (https://www.rabbitroom.com/merlinsisle) by Malcolm Guite (https://malcolmguite.com/). It's the first of four forthcoming volumes of a new epic poetic Arthuriad, and this first volume is beautiful – both the story and poetry, the incredi... https://aaronjz.com/977c5328

@pagecord.com just keeps getting better for blogging! @olly.world is such a great and responsive dev. Using @obsidian.md to publish to multiple blogs with a simple plugin API is amazing! Highly recommend Pagecord as a blogging platform to anyone considering starting one.

It is a bit sad to me to watch the ending of the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight will be his final show. Of all the current late show hosts, he’s the one I have found to be the classiest and wittiest. Watching David Letterman and Colbert together from last w... https://aaronjz.com/bbd0c36b

Really love using @pagecord.com for my blog. These latest embeded posts features are great! @olly.world is a great dev, and actually uses the app he makes. He's a great blogger, too! Thanks for what you do, Olly!

Two books and great music https://aaronjz.com/two-books-and-great-music

📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. www.terrygodier.com/the-borin…

Some reflections from my week-long reading break aaronjz.com/some-reflect...

Rich Mullins on where his songs come from (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHaCIB5nhBM): > My songs are not particularly inspired. The Scriptures were inspired; my songs are provoked. I love this idea of songs, or any art, being provoked from us. When I encounter th... https://aaronjz.com/460e6176

The infraordinary beauty of wildflowers https://aaronjz.com/the-infraordinary-beauty-of-wildflowers

Taking a week-long reading break https://aaronjz.com/taking-a-week-long-reading-break

Love the connection of Bilbo's difficulty in letting go of the ring to our difficulty in letting go of our smartphones. As @malcolmguite.bsky.social says, we can "spread ourselves thin in a hundred virtual places." Bilbo's surrender is perhaps one of the greatest moments in the whole LOTR stories.

I think @joanwestenberg.com really hits the nail on the head about doomerism in this piece. I also love the challenge toward hopeful optimism that results in action. Really encouraging read today!

@tyfromtheinternet.com I see on your site (great site, btw!) you've been listening to Daniel Pemberton's soundtrack. I've been playing that as well! He's a great composer/artist. Love what he did with the recent animated Spiderman movies, too!

> The quality of life is in proportion, always, to the capacity for delight. The capacity for delight is the gift of paying attention. Julia Cameron, The Artist's Way

Watching the Artemis II crew returning to earth. Praying for a safe landing!

Here's a great indieweb blog aggregator. Enjoying the features of it so far!

Amaze amaze amaze! images.nasa.gov

A sound behind her stirs A scatter of bright birdsong through the air. She turns, but cannot focus through her tears, Or recognise the Gardener standing there malcolmguite.wordpress.com/2026/04/05/a...

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

What an incredible shot of earth (https://lede-admin.defector.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/28/2026/04/art002e000192.jpeg?w=2880) taken by astronaut Reid Wiseman from the Orion 95,000 miles away!

Moment of infinity https://aaronjz.com/moment-of-infinity

Finished Marilynne Robinson's Home today. Such a beautiful, heartbreaking, and hopeful story. It contains that quality of bright sadness. The novel stirred up my own thoughts and questions about home. I wrote about them here (https://aaronjz.com/questions-on-home). https://aaronjz.com/df2e2107

Questions on home https://aaronjz.com/questions-on-home

Starting The Artist's Way today with a good friend for quarter two. It's like a 12-steps program over 12 weeks for those who want to connect again to that creative part of themselves. I'm looking forward to the challenge! https://aaronjz.com/e340451e

I'm about 90% done with Home by Marilynne Robinson. It's such a beautiful book. "Can a person ever change?" is the question underlying the whole narrative and I'm loving it. All the characters & conversations feel so real and honest. Grateful for this story. https://aaronjz.com/d31669ce

There's something good and nostalgic about hanging clothes on a clothesline. Felt good to do today. https://aaronjz.com/7b6cb83e

Jess Ray released a new song today. It's very good. The writing, the mix, the melody, the feel and message. Grateful for artists like her and songs like this: Find My Way Back (ffm.to/find-my-way-...). aaronjz.com/02ee56f3

George MacDonald on inspiration. You can't control when it happens, but through silence and stillness you can practice being ready to meet it when it arrives.

> “Weary or bitter or bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home.” – Home (https://bookshop.org/p/books/home-oprah-s-book-club-a-novel-marilynne-robinson/e740f67d555e90dc?ean=9781250784025&next=t) by M... https://aaronjz.com/897a16e7

The Odyssey, Dune 3, Spiderman 4, Project Hail Mary... 2026 already feels more significant for movies than 2025.

Looking for the thread | aaronjz.com/looking-for-...

Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0166813/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_4_nm_0_in_0_q_spirit%20stallion) is such a beautiful movie. Watched it for the first time in a long time. At one point, when Spirit was placed on the train and feeling low, an... https://aaronjz.com/3e2ffe02

Could relate a lot to this poem "Bags" (see full poem at link) by @brianbilston.bsky.social cleaning the garage yesterday. "you had bags of bags in your bags you kept more bags" Those grocery store bags are good for storing grocery store bags. Brian knows.

@aetheros.computer is super cool

Really looking forward to this upcoming @pagecord.com → @obsidian.md feature! https://olly.world/obsidian-pagecord --- Aaron Zavala - March 13, 2026 15:23 | https://aaronjz.com/c020f9fe