Julian JP Lee

from the weeks of 16 & 23 February, 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30 March & 6 April 2026

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Live and let flow~

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Surely none are so mad as those who are content to live unprepared to die.

—J. C. Ryle

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Trees are essentially modular & scalable Regenerative Units.

Perhaps we don’t need to design so many more cooling and energy production technologies to survive climate meltdown.

Why don’t we just plant more trees?

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The heart of worship is openness. To truly worship God is to let ourselves be seen by God, to be known by God and to be loved by God.

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excel macros are the backbone of the economy

—sneak99 (YouTube user)

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Slow can be smooth, and smooth is fast.

—Michael MacKelvie

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“When studying sword law, many of my students ask me about the principle of hesitation. I tell them plainly that hesitation is defeat. Thought is slower than the edge of a blade and does not cut half as well.

‘Master,’ they then ask me, ‘What if victory is impossible?’

The answer to this very simple question is this: flee, or go to your just and honest death. Either is a good choice. The worst of all is the man who agonizes for half a breath over the value of his own life and dies an indecisive coward.”

—Ryo-ten-Ryam (from Kill Six Billion Demons)

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my sword is steadfast

my sight is true

i am not afraid

of what you might do

—a mantra of deep faithfulness

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Our Griefs

will stay with us til

we have heard

all they

have to say.

So why not take up

their invitation

& meet your Grief

for tea?

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Destructive relationships between ourselves and the rest of nature are not innate to human beings, but are instead outcomes of the particular social relations structuring our society. We see ecological problems as social problems, with the domination of human beings being at the root of attempts to dominate nature.

—The Institute of Social Ecology

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Maintaining engagement with the environment is crucial. Studies of Indigenous resource management emphasize that knowledge is produced through use: harvesting, traveling, observing, and responding to feedback. When communities are separated from their lands, whether by policy restrictions or socioeconomic pressures, the feedback loop weakens. Researchers describe this as a form of “biocultural hysteresis,” in which knowledge and management capacity decline together. The result is not simply cultural loss but diminished environmental understanding.

—Rhett Ayers Butler, Mongabay

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A problem hidden is a problem doubled.

A problem acknowledged is a problem halved.

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Willingness to begin is more important than capability. The one who begins will learn how capable they need to be to succeed. Those who never begin never do.

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Love’s flame reduces guilt to ash.

—Rumi, translated by Haleh Liza Gafori

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Sometimes all it takes to succeed is to not give up.

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The practice is to not practise.

Do not do.

Practise no practise.

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God often meets us not when we are prepared, but when we are interrupted… Lent invites us to reflect on how we respond when life places a cross before us — often unexpectedly, often inconveniently, yet always with the possibility of grace.

—Church of St. Francis Xavier

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When you’ve realised you’ve failed and you start to wallow in guilt and self-pity, ask yourself, “Ok, so what?”

“Yes, I have failed. So what?”

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