Hi, I’m Daniel. I’m Georgian by birth, Texan by conditioning, and Narnian at heart. I care about clarity and ideas. And the way ideas are communicated best is through stories. So I care about stories and I try to write them. I find myself examining stories—studying, criticizing, praising stories—a lot.

Very Public Secret Society is a space to do more of that. Because we are all doing it all of the time: creating stories, telling stories, examining the stories of others. Some of us write them down and some of us put them to music. Some of us paint and some of us build. Some of us teach and some of us study. For some, the scalpel is the pen and the plate is the canvas.

We are story-bound, meaning-seeking people. And that is what this substack is about: making stories and seeking meaning.

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Part-time writer, full-time fantasizer. Obsessing about stories and what they tell us about culture, humanity, faith, and our future. Signal booster for common sense, objectivity, and humor.