Memoirs of a Renaissance Man

David Ahearn and Adi together outside La Fermette Marbeuf in Paris

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You Will Meet a Woman in Paris

A comedian, a soldier named George W. Bush Jr., and the whisper I almost ignored.

David 5 days ago

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The Only Lesson We Came Here to Learn

“Are you a traveling man?” It is a curious question to put to someone who carries no suitcase, no ticket, and no sunburn from a recent cruise. To the uninitiated ear, it sounds like small talk at a hotel bar, an idle inquiry into where we have been and where we hope to wander next. […]

David 4 weeks agoOctober 31, 2026

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Luck Be a Lady

You Had To Lose Everything You Were Holding Nobody expects a yield sign to be the thing that splits a life into before and after. Ours did. It was a Saturday night in March, the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, 2024. The town was celebrating. People were drinking. We were just driving. I yelled, “STOP.” […]

David 6 months agoMay 1, 2026

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Letting Go:

How a Liver Cleanse Taught Me to Stop Resisting and Start Letting Go Adi and I have been spending quite a bit of time lately at a place in the Texas Hill Country called Sovereignty Ranch, which belongs to some dear friends of ours and which I have come to love with the kind of […]

David 7 months agoOctober 29, 2026

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A Letter to My Children: What Time Has Taught Me

The Things That Matter Most in the End I have been reflecting more than usual lately, moving through moments that can only be reached now through memory. Adi left for a few days to give her heart to a cause in the Hill Country, and she took our oldest with her, leaving me as steward […]

David 7 months agoApril 3, 2026

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The Feast Before the Fast

The island is alive, and the drumbeats carry all the way to our wraparound porch on 33rd, steady and insistent, only a few short blocks from the parade route lined thick along 25th. Mardi Gras has arrived, and with it Galveston braces for a weekend of unabashed celebration. Sirens from fire engines slice through the […]

David 9 months agoOctober 29, 2026

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Rumi’s Three Gates of Speech: Is It True, Is It Necessary, Is It Kind?

Quietude on Amazon Is it true? Is it kind? Is it necessary? The great Sufi poet, Rumi, believed that before we speak, our words should pass through three gates. Each gate asks a simple question, yet each one carries weight. Is it true? Is it necessary? Is it kind? These poignant questions aren’t meant to […]

David 10 months agoOctober 31, 2026

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The Chord That Knows the Way

“Now I’ve heard there was a secret chord that David played, and it pleased the Lord.” The lyrics lingered in the room, the first sounds of the day, as the cold settled into the Big House. Winter had slipped through the old walls and made itself known without apology. Our home, built in Victorian times, […]

David 10 months agoOctober 29, 2026

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The Labyrinth’s Road To Confluence

The ocean calls each morning — a gentle whisper inviting us to leave the mark of God upon the sand. We go not out of duty, but because to stay away would be to deny the call He placed in our hearts. With rake in hand, and a fire poker I’ve adopted as my pencil, […]

David 12 months agoOctober 29, 2026