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Aaron Zavala
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I'm a husband, dad, and artist. I love the deep things of life, the things hard to quantify but which matter most, like truth, goodness, beauty, and love....
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- Aaron Zavala - October 31, 2026 12:50
Oct 31, 2026 · original
I am a proud and active user of Readwise . I've had an account since December 31st of 2022. Today I reached 1,400 days of daily highlight reviews – 5 highlights a day from articles, books, PDFs, tweets, etc. that I've saved to my Readwise Highlights and/or have read through Readwise Reader . Readwise is a great company making great products, with their most recent being Readwise Books . If I had a smartphone, I would begin using that product immediately. Instead, I will wait until the desktop version comes out. I know it will be a fun experience. - Discipleship is like quantum entanglement
Oct 27, 2026 · original
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 one location, the other behaved in the exact same way in the exact same moment, regardless of time dilation. It was instantaneous. In his incredible book, Renovation of the Heart , Dallas Willard provides a helpful question to give shape to what following Jesus looks like: "How would Jesus lead our lives if he were we?" Becoming like Jesus in our everyday lives means becoming more and more entangled with his movements, with his way of being, so that our particular lives begin to take on the goodness of his character and depth of his qualities. We are to grow even closer together so that when we are observed here on earth, as the Father observes us, our liv - Aaron Zavala - October 23, 2026 18:19
Oct 23, 2026 · original
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 sometimes when one gets up at the tender solemn dawn-time and goes out and stands alone and throws one's head far back and looks up and up and watches the pale sky slowly changing and flushing and marvelous unknown things happening until the East almost makes one cry out and one's heart stands still at the strange unchanging majesty of the rising of the sun—which has been happening every morning for thousands and thousands and thousands of years. One knows it then for a moment or so. And one knows it sometimes when one stands by oneself in a wood at sunset and the mysterious deep gold stillness slanting through and the branches - Aaron Zavala - October 09, 2026 13:25
Oct 9, 2026 · original
"Yesterday" cover by Jacob Collier. So, so good! https://youtube.com/shorts/Nj6e09qBDbk?si=BG9CsbmU8rXWXw4Y - Aaron Zavala - September 22, 2026 08:48
Sep 22, 2026 · original
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 of candy corn later today and share with my son. My wife reminded me today that for the past seven years I've always gotten candy corn during fall time, and every time I kind of regretted the decision saying the candy wasn't really worth it – it's never as good as I anticipate. She's right, of course. I'll probably say the same thing again today. But it's fall time. And tradition's tradition. - Aaron Zavala - September 14, 2026 07:40
Sep 14, 2026 · original
We are being prepared for eternity every time we behold beauty. – Martin Shaw, Liturgies of the Wild - Aaron Zavala - September 01, 2026 12:28
Sep 1, 2026 · original
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 always rewards reflection and meditation. Need to refresh myself on this to keep it alive in my mind and heart. I'm so thankful for who Berry was and for what he leaves behind. He enriched the earth. My friend Joe Chambers introduced me to Berry's book Jayber Crow , which has also become a favorite story of mine. Here's Joe reading Berry's poem "The Peace of Wild Things" in his warm, rich voice in Berry's honor. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eQSB0SSJEo - If I die
Sep 1, 2026 · original
If I die With a song In my heart, Will the music Wake me up? - Aaron Zavala - August 31, 2026 10:34
Aug 31, 2026 · original
||: REJOICE :|| - Phil. 4:4 - Aaron Zavala - August 30, 2026 21:46
Aug 31, 2026 · original
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 these stories old and new contain within them. I’m excited to learn these stories and to hear him share them. - To use, or not to use...
Aug 24, 2026 · original
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 article in the New York Times My own post from an experiment I did earlier this year, Some reflections from the reading break I think I want to try out being off Twitter, Bluesky, Mastodon, et al., not merely for a week, but maybe for a few months, if not more. I will see what it's like keeping up with others' blogs via RSS , posting here as I'd like, and enjoying more time offline. I want to see what this feels like and what comes of it. When I've read other people who have announced this kind of thing ("I'm deleting Twitter," "I'm getting off Instagram," etc.) it almost feels to me like they are announcing they will be l - Aaron Zavala - August 14, 2026 15:40
Aug 14, 2026 · original
There really is nothing like live music. Second best thing to being there in-person is getting to watch the video of the live takes. Loving Cory Wong's and Joshua Redman's live recording of On A Random Tuesday: Live At The Blue Note ( Apple Music ). You can watch the great live recording of it at the link below. On A Random Tuesday: Live At The Blue Note https://youtu.be/1WKzbrsz0wM?si=WUyBdiLXUKbLeXa6 Here is another of my favorite live-recorded albums I've come back to often (also featuring Cory Wong). Vulfpeck's Clarity of Cal https://youtu.be/8bLinctYcno?si=92kEzZmT_NWnCfHP - The Golden Key – What is a key for?
Aug 9, 2026 · original
I recently watched mythologist and storyteller Martin Shaw speak with Matt Fradd about myths, fairy tales, and faith. I loved the conversation, and hope to read Martin's latest book , Liturgies of the Wild . Myth is a wild way of telling the truth. - Martin Shaw Shaw mentions that myth is an ocean dealing with cosmic implications of reality, while fairy tales are "little tributaries of myth that you can put in your pocket and carry around with you." They lead you to wonder about what is true, good, and beautiful in the microcosm of our own little everyday life . From that conversation, I decided to look into Household Tales by The Brothers Grimm published in 1812. One of the last tales in this collection is a short story entitled "The Golden Key." In this story, a boy of economically poor background discovers a golden key in the snow, as well as a locked box buried beneath the key. He di - Think little
Jul 24, 2026 · original
Read through Wendell Berry’s “Think Little” essay a couple of days ago. He published this essay way back in 1969, but his encouragement and advice to live against the consumeristic age are evergreen: Odd as I am sure it will appear to some, I can think of no better form of personal involvement in the cure of the environment than that of gardening. A person who is growing a garden, if he is growing it organically, is improving a piece of the world. This kind of thinking always reminds me of what Gandalf said to the men of Gondor when they were tempted to despair: It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule. Focus on the here and now. Tend to the fiel - Write yourself into a new way of thinking
Jul 24, 2026 · original
Writing is thinking. Deep thinking apart from writing, however, is impoverished thinking. When you don’t know what to write – write about that. You’ll pick up the thread again somewhere along the way. Write yourself into a new way of thinking.
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