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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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- The Creative Imagination
Nov 13, 2026 · original
Just completed the essay by philosopher Michael Polanyi, " The Creative Imagination ." Polanyi worked in the realm of epistemology, or what we mean when we say we know something. His work focuses especially on things like intuition and tacit knowledge, the way we can know something without knowing exactly how to put words to it. Isn't it curious how we can know something before we are conscious of it, like when we know something "feels off," and then we discover later why it felt off? I am endlessly fascinated by this reality. This particular essay integrates aspects of what it means to know something, but focuses primarily on how the imagination plays a crucial part in keeping us motivated as we intuitively pursue a solution to a problem or resolve to a challenge. For example, learning how to ride a bike, all the way to something like Einstein working out his theory of relativity. When - Aaron Zavala - November 03, 2026 08:07
Nov 3, 2026 · original
"If all the world is a commodity, how poor we grow. When all the world is a gift in motion, how wealthy we become." – Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass - "Great is Thy Faithfulness" cover and /music page
Nov 2, 2026 · original
I just uploaded a version of the old hymn "Great is Thy Faithfulness" to my YouTube channel . You can watch it there, or check it out here on my new /music page at https://aaronjz.com/music . For those interested, I am tuned to Jacob Collier's 5-string guitar tuning , just adapted for normal 6-string guitars and tuned a half-step down from D: C# - G# - D# - G# - C# - C# . I am also open to sharing more about my guitar technique if anyone has any questions. I love playing guitar! I am in agreement with Ted Gioia – I think songs are powerful and can serve as agents of change . I hope this song and any others I share serve in this way – a change toward peace and flourishing for anyone who listens. - Aaron Zavala - October 31, 2026 15:00
Oct 31, 2026 · original
My wife and I had a watercolor date night sometime in January of last year. I tried my hand at copying a picture from one of my favorite reads from that season, The Wind in the Willows , the edition with the Ernest Shepard illustrations. My Photos app reminded me of this today. Like Rat, I would love to sit by the fireplace, writing poetry, songs, or reading a good book, and eventually being lulled to sleep by the crackling of logs. This is what a good fall or winter evening would look like to me. (Except with more detail around the fireplace, of course.) Rat from The Wind in the Willows Tiffany's artwork from that evening Tiffany is definitely more skilled than me at watercolors. Love this palette she made! - 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
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