Faith seeking understanding, my personal journey towards a deeper knowledge of and intimacy with God, the cosmos, humanity and myself through thoughts, words and (occasionally) images, is a series of [hopefully] daily reflections I’m writing with the purpose of publishing something on a regular basis for others to read, either here, at joncarllewis.com or among my writings at Medium.com.

I have decided, when I grow up, to be Gore Vidal. I think there is still time. I just finished reading the first chapter of his Palimpsest: A Memoir, and I fell in love with its language and breezy tone. Of course, I need to figure out how to meet and gather stories on hundreds of famous and wealthy people… well, I can dream. At least I can aspire to write with similar acerbic tone and flair at some point if I study him well. Which should be easy to do, given how enjoyable I find his prose.

I suppose I should be grateful that I did not read his memoir until I had attained some age (if not maturity) myself. The romance of life evoked by Vidal seems as potentially corrupting as Oscar Wilde. And I was, for most of my life, heartily desirous of corruption.

But I am safe from all that, now, and can aspire to the pleasures of later life: remembering the pleasures and aspirations of my youth and middle age with panache and élan.

Wish me luck!

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May God richly bless you on your journey.