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The other half of the workbench. A newsletter where geek culture meets an older faith, a small book of poems with my name on the spine, and a quiet shelf of stories and verse you're welcome to read for nothing at all.
Geek Orthodox
A newsletter and podcast on what the geeks did with the earth they inherited โ read through an Eastern Christian lens.
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Books
My Heart Leaps Up โ a paperback collection of poems, in print and waiting on a shelf near you.
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Stories & Poems
Short fiction and verse, posted freely at blog.ehewlett.net for anyone who wanders by.
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geek orthodox
"The geeks have inherited the earth."
That's the line the whole project hangs from โ and the question hiding behind it is the one I keep coming back to: and what have we done with it? Geek Orthodox is a newsletter and podcast about exactly that. Technology, games, the strange new culture of the internet โ taken seriously, neither sneered at nor swallowed whole, and held up against a tradition a good deal older than the silicon.
I write it under the name Fr. Justin โ a geek from my youth who happens also to be an Orthodox priest. If the meeting of those two worlds sounds like a contradiction, that's more or less the point, and the fun of it.
recent & representative
- It's the End of the World (of Code)
What we're going to do with the world we've been handed. - On the Everlasting Idiocy and Inhumanity of Bureaucracy
A rant โ earned, and only slightly exaggerated. - A Proper Approach to Polytheism
An Eastern Christian understanding. - Return to Japan ยท a series
Travel, memory, and the long way home.
Free to read, free to subscribe. The full archive lives here โ
poetry ยท paperback
My Heart
Leaps Up
Poems by Edward Hewlett
available now on Lulu.com
books
My Heart Leaps Up
The title is borrowed, unrepentantly, from Wordsworth โ the small poem about a grown man still stopped in his tracks by a rainbow, and hoping he always will be. That's the register of this collection: ordinary wonder, taken seriously. It's a paperback chapbook of poems, gathered over years and finally talked into sitting still between two covers.
If you've read anything of mine and wanted a copy you could hold, dog-ear, and leave on a windowsill โ this is that copy. Printed and sold through Lulu, so a real book lands on your real doorstep.
Prefer to sample before you buy? There's plenty of free verse over in Stories & Poems.
stories & poems
Free to read, because some things should be.
Not everything I write is meant to be sold. Over at blog.ehewlett.net there's a growing shelf of short stories and poems put out in the open, for the simple reason that a poem nobody can read isn't doing much good. Wander in, stay as long as you like, pay nothing.
Short fiction
Small stories that try to earn their length โ the kind you can finish over a cup of something before it goes cold.
Poems
Verse, traditional and otherwise. Some of it found its way into My Heart Leaps Up; plenty more lives here in the open.
Whatever's next
The blog grows as the writing does. New pieces turn up when they're ready and not a moment before.
"Build it plainly. Charge kindly. Write it like a person โ because a person is reading."
โ the house rule, for code and prose alike
Want words written, or just want to talk about them?
Copy for a site, a foreword, a stubborn paragraph that won't behave โ or simply a conversation about books and the state of the written word. I'm glad to have it.