Beauty & Truth Press

Impossible But Fun Tasks

Here I name five tasks that are very hard and very fun to do. They are less like problems to be solved than like instruments to be played. We'll never master them, and that's OK

Five Photographs and a Field of Light

This is an image-optimization test post. It contains five deliberately oversized photographs embedded straight from the camera, plus normal formatting, so we can confirm the system shrinks and optimizes every picture for the web instead of dropping huge files on the server. A giant landscape The image below started at…

Three-Percent Mastery

The ever-evolving truth is far too complicated and fluid and slippery and scrambled and gorgeously abundant for one soul to understand.

Nate's Test Post

This is a sample excerpt designed to test your blog's index or feed layout. It is exactly three sentences long and contains just enough text to give readers a preview of the main article. Use this to verify how your platform handles character limits, "Read More" links, and basic text formatting on the homepage.

Your Vows to the Future You

I invite you to write a letter to the person you will be one year from today. Tell this Future You that you have taken a vow to accomplish three feats by then.

[Sample] On the Quiet Insurgency of Wonder

Placeholder essay introducing the Sacred Uproar Lab. Replace with Rob's first real essay before launch.

Is Pronoia Still Worth Wielding?

A meditation on whether crafty optimism and radical hope can be justified now — and a chorus of mentors weighing in.

[Sample] Excerpt — Pronoia Is the Antidote for Paranoia

Placeholder book excerpt from Pronoia. Replace with Rob's selected passage.

A Test Drive Through the Sacred Uproar Lab

This is a sample post for testing the email-to-website system. Everything you see here was typed in plain Word using the built-in styles. Some words are bold , some are italic , and the website keeps both. What this test proves The system can take a finished Word document and…

Each Morning Is All Mornings

The oak tree’s shadow is the messiah. The Honda Accord is as natural as the Grand Canyon. Logic is delirious love.

[Sample] Praise for the Unfinished

Placeholder poem. Replace with Rob's selected piece.

You Taste Delicious

[Sample] Song Lyric — Symbiosis

Placeholder song lyric with link to where the song resides. Replace with Rob's selected lyric.

Free Stuff from Me to You

More than 50 free things: music, book excerpts, interviews, essays, and other oddments from my ever-expanding laboratory of plurk.