Hugh Hollowell

Hugh Hollowell

Archive

Politics and religion

Updates
Comments 1
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1
Hey y'all.

I'm whipped. I spent the last 5 days facilitating a project my church developed we call a Peace Lab. Eleven teens, age 14-19, who spent 5 days learning…

Genius Loci

Bonus Essay
Comments 1
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1

In the ancient Roman religions, they believed that any given place had a genius loci, or a protective spirit responsible for that place.  The woods on the edge of…

This complicated day

Members Only Newsletter
Comments 1
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hey y’all!

Today is the Fourth of July everywhere, and in the US it is the holiday called Independence Day, where we celebrate the day the founders of the US…

Eight years ago last night

Bonus Essay
Comments 1
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0

When we pulled the U-Haul into the parking lot of the apartment building in downtown Jackson, it was nine at night. When Renee opened her door, the humidity rolled in…

Won't you be my neighbor?

Bonus Essay
Comments 5
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1

I am six years old, sitting on the floor of our living room, eyes glued to the screen. The TV in those days was a small black and white affair…

Meridian

Updates
Comments 1
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hey y'all,

It's the day after my birthday, and I'm in Meridian, MS in a bougie hotel downtown--the sort where you have to pay for your breakfast, and there is…

Birthdays, book events and podcasts.

Members Only Newsletter
Comments 2
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hi y'all. 

I always struggle to be open about my mental health stuff. It's not my inclination—I would much rather hide and listen to jazz and maybe read a book…

The Magnolia Tree (and a member-only sale)

Bonus Essay
Comments 3
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hey y'all.
 
I'm trying something new. I have a lot of things sitting around that I made that are not quite "good enough" to sell to the public. Maybe…

What I want to do.

Bonus Essay
Comments 0
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0

Last night I was on a Zoom call with some folks, and I mentioned that when I was in high school in the late 80s, I wanted to be a…

There is no app for this

Bonus Essay
Comments 2
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
It's not there any more, but twenty years ago, there was a tobacco store on Madison Avenue in downtown Memphis, Tennessee. My friend Richard owned it, and he had bought…

F.I.N.E.

Bonus Essay
Comments 2
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1

I'm not in recovery for any addiction issue. But I know a lot of people who are. 

For nearly a decade and a half I worked with lots of addicted…

Walking the grass

Bonus Essay
Comments 3
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1

Hi friends.
A custom essay just for you today, mostly composed in my head yesterday while cutting the grass at church.

I was interviewed for The Competent Pastor Podcast…

A series of part time jobs

Members Only Newsletter
Comments 0
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hey y'all. 

I just wanted to pop a note in to apologize for two weeks in a row without an essay. There's just a lot going on, and while I'm…

Tiny joys

Bonus Essay
Comments 2
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1
Hi all.

This is another piece for the new book. I'm picturing it having several long-form anchor essays, with a lot of 2-3 page short essays, similar to how I…

The little book of self-care

Bonus Essay
Comments 3
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 3
Hey y'all.
 
Since I almost died in 2017 from burnout, I have wished someone wrote a real-world self-care guide for people who did the front-line sort of work I…

I'm on the road this weekend.

Comments 0
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hi friends.

I'm in Newton Kansas this weekend, where I'm a board member for Mennonite Central Committee, Central States. We're doing good work here, but I'm going to be pretty…

Two things, twice.

Members Only Newsletter
Comments 4
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hey y'all.

I have a lot to do today, and I'm not in the best place mentally, so I'm taking the day off from creative writing. But I do have…

Tulsa

Bonus Essay
Comments 0
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
NB: there is a short update at the end of this piece. - HH

It never would be allowed to happen now, at least not in the same way…

I'm ok and not ok. Ok?

Members Only Newsletter
Comments 1
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 0
Hi friends. 

I had coffee with a dear friend the other day that I hadn't seen in a few months, and as I sat down, she said, "You look great!"…

I cannot be me there

Bonus Essay
Comments 2
{like: "Like", liked: "Liked", likes_html: {one: "1 <span class='like-text'>like</span>", other: "%{count} <span class='like-text'>likes</span>"}, index: {more_likes: {one: "And one more", other: "And %{count} more"}}} 1
I wasn't friends with Jerry in those days-he was at least seven years older than I was, and when you are nine, that might as well be a hundred. But…