Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
Faith · 2026-02-24
A virtue list can become a costume faster than a man notices. Capability. Courage. Hospitality. Restraint. Oath-keeping. Honest work. Put the words in a row and they look like a religion already. They are clean, serious, and useful. [more]
Faith · 2023-01-24
The dead are easy to abuse because they cannot interrupt. That may be the first rule of ancestor work worth remembering. The living can quote them, polish them, recruit them, soften them, sharpen them, and arrange them around whatever argument needs an old face behind it. [more]
Faith · 2022-09-27
Blood is a record. It is not the whole archive. That sentence will irritate two different kinds of people for opposite reasons. One kind wants ancestry to be nothing but biology, a chain of bodies and names moving backward until the records fail. [more]
Faith · 2021-10-12
The first lie is usually reasonable. Not dramatic. Not wicked. Just reasonable enough to pass inspection when a man is tired, comfortable, successful, or surrounded by evidence that nothing has fallen apart yet. I will do it tomorrow. I have earned the rest. [more]
2026-07-21 | faith
2026-07-07 | life
2026-07-05 | life
2026-07-03 | life
2026-06-21 | faith
2026-06-16 | faith
2026-02-24 | faith
2026-01-20 | faith
2025-12-23 | faith
2025-11-25 | faith