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Reflections · 9 min read

What Leaves, What Stays, and What Finds You Anyway

A deeply personal reflection on opportunity, friendship, love, loss, faith, and the quiet ways God shapes us through both gain and departure.

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  1. 11 July 2026What Leaves, What Stays, and What Finds You AnywayReflections · 9 min
  2. 21 June 2026The Polygamist Was Never About Jonasi: A Mirror, A Memory, and the Men We Become Without NoticingReflections · 5 min
  3. 10 June 2026The Company We Keep: Why I Prefer Solitude in a World Full of NoiseReflections · 6 min
  4. 06 May 2026Why I Build Things Before I Feel ReadyLearning in Public · 2 min
  5. May 2026Shame Speaks With Other People’s VoicesPhilosophy · 1 min
  6. May 2026The Things The Ancestors Said To MeCulture · 2 min
  7. May 2026ReceiptsSurvival · 2 min
  8. 18 April 2026When Everything You Believe In Starts Delaying YouPhilosophy · 1 min
  9. 09 April 2026Never Drop Your Standards in LoveIdentity · 1 min
  10. 31 March 2026The Unseen Weight: Why the Most Valuable Parts of You Cannot Be MeasuredDigital Psychology · 1 min
  11. 06 March 2026When Everything Becomes Content: How Algorithm Culture Is Quietly Rewiring SocietyTechnology & Society · 1 min
  12. 24 February 2026When the Heat Is Real: Making It Out of Uncomfortable, Dangerous and Unhealthy SituationsPhilosophy · 1 min
  13. 09 February 2026The Smile We Never Questioned: A Tribute to Kitso “Kazner” MohobelaIdentity · 1 min
  14. 17 January 2026Imagine If We Could Block Each Other in Real LifeDigital Psychology · 2 min
  15. 09 January 2026Your New Year’s Resolutions Are Too Small for the Person You Are BecomingPhilosophy · 1 min
  16. 28 December 2025Reflecting on 2025: A Year of Sacrifices, Lessons, and Returning HomeIdentity · 1 min
  17. 21 December 2025The Math of Monsters: A Manifesto on the Men Who Break WomenMasculinity · 2 min
  18. 23 November 2025The Nature of Outgrowing Others: Why Growth Turns You Into A StrangerIdentity · 1 min
  19. 20 November 2025How Short a Year Can Be, While Having Long DaysPhilosophy · 1 min
  20. 27 October 2025Joseph, the Father I Never Thought I'd BeMasculinity · 1 min

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