Hi Reader,

If you're just re-joining us, welcome back! I'm done with the email portion of my white paper project and am returning to weekly newsletters on my usual topics of existence, meaning, and coming home.

Time is very dear right now and I'm still not done with the final edit and visual design of the white paper. I would seriously love to be finished with it, but it still needs some unknown amount of hours and I've scarcely managed to put even fifteen minutes into it this week. So I think the next few of these newsletters are going to be shorter than usual. Let's get to it.

In my seemingly-neverending quest to dial in my message and audience, I often shy away from words like God and spirituality. I think I might have some fear about writing about that stuff, like it's too "out there."

So in the interests of seeing what happens if I buck that trend, here's a definition I stumbled upon one day when talking with a friend. He asked what I meant by spiritual, and I was really happy with the answer that came to me.

I said simply, "Spiritual is the opposite of empirical."

Maybe I made that up myself and maybe I got it from somewhere I've now forgotten about, but I still find it very helpful.

Next week I'll look at one of the helpful effects of looking at things this way.