Welcome to Weekly Reads, Bants and Eats!

It has recently come to my attention that I am drowning in an ocean of personal malaise and lack of interest in anything I used to love. This is obviously not good. So in a bid to inject some hope and freedom into myself and my life I thought I would start a little weekly collection of small joys or ‘weekly devotions’ as I am cutely coining them. I don’t know if I have stated this before but I grew up in an Irish Christian family with a pastor for a father and the non-denomational church for a babysitter/social friend group for pretty much all the way up to college. These kinds of things they…affect us religious childhood peeps in a number of ways. A lot of that is in the language we use and over the years it’s been interesting to see how words I grew up using that everyone at Church just ‘got’ are actually confusing and weird for people who were not part and parcel of that group. I’ve worked hard to de-institutionalise some of my speech but here I am reclaiming one of those words because I think it works for this particular topic. So a devotion or devotional generally was a daily or weekly religious practice, namely reading some Bible goodies or biblically adjacent texticles, that you would ‘devote’ your time and heart too in an effort to be a more advanced Christian. I like the idea of devotion in a broader and more natural context and having it reflect more of a commitment to our own joys and things we notice in our day to day that bring us to a place of fulfillment and peace. Hence why I am reclaiming this section as the ‘devotions’ section.

So please feel free to check out this little corner of my spiderweb of madness every Sunday morning (I think? I live in Hawaii so I don’t know what time zone it will actually happen in lol) for some good recommendations of yummy recipes/food stuffs I have put in my belly. Things I devote myself too in order to bring me back to joy. There will also feature some good reads of a shorter nature than a book. These will likely be some interesting articles by much better writers than me that I love to read as a means to combat ‘zombie scrolling’ as I recently heard it coined. I will also maybe share a funny meme or story and maybe some interesting activities I have been enjoying lately or what have you. Who knows after all this is my website so I suppose I can write whatever da fuck I want and probably nobody except my brothers and sisters will read it.

Maybe I’ll call this segment ‘Shits and Giggles’? Eh who knows let’s just say the title is a work in progress.