David Hamilton

We are Verbivores

An invitation to consider language as something more than communication — as nourishment. Drawing on the quiet, human rhythms of daily life, this essay explores what happens when we treat our words the way we treat food: as something to be chosen with care, digested slowly, and shared with presence.

Scope Creep Is Not Just About You

This essay reframes scope creep as more than a personal failure of boundaries. It shows how overextension is sustained by cultural systems that reward devotion while quietly consuming it, and invites the reader to see fatigue and resistance as meaningful signals of soul and wisdom rather than weakness.

When Growth Is the Only Goal: The Quiet Risk of Numbing

A reflective essay exploring how substance use and numbing behaviors often emerge in systems that idolize constant growth. Blending systems thinking with soul care, this piece invites a deeper look at the structural roots of coping and the quiet courage of slowing down.

Stop Saying You’re Bad at Saying No

Scope creep isn’t a flaw in willpower. It reveals how devotion, service, and boundaries live in tension. A depth-psychology perspective inspired by Hillman and Moore.

The Mystic Scientist

A reflective essay on a passage from C.S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength, exploring how Mark's misplaced mysticism in abstractions mirrors our own temptations today—in education, relationships, and even the digital age— and how presence continually breaks through.

Who Really Observes?

This essay explores how what we call the “hard sciences” rely most on mediated observation and hidden layers of trust, while the “soft sciences” and faith remain rooted in direct, disciplined noticing of life—flipping our cultural assumptions upside down.

The Kids These Days

A reflection on how the tone of conflict has degraded over generations—and how to restore kind, responsible speech without romanticizing the past.

In Defense of Normalizing Liminality

A contemplative essay on why the in-between is not an exception but the shape of human experience.

Your First Language Is Presence

Before words, there was presence—and maybe it still speaks most clearly.

The Life of a Word: Deprecated

From prayer to programming, this word carried a trace of reverence even as its meaning changed.

Odd Word, Odd Place

What programming taught me about habits, boundaries, and trying again without fear.

Why I Made LiminalPie.com

After years of one-on-one work, I’m learning how stories can carry some of the same depth—without needing a therapy room.

What It Means if Your Therapist Is Anglican

You don’t need to be Anglican—or religious at all—for this to matter. But it may help explain a few things.

The Risk of Attachment

Becoming attached — truly letting someone matter — is, in many ways, the most dangerous step a human can take. What do we do about that?

Writing About Faith in a Pluralistic World

How do I speak truthfully without sounding like a missionary in disguise?

Any child loves rain

A meditation on the quote from C.S. Lewis's 'That Hideous Strength' about children and weather.

When the Room Tilts

A moment in *Perelandra* reveals what it feels like when our deepest assumptions about “normal” are quietly undone.

To Learn Is to Burgle

Learning doesn’t always wait for permission. Sometimes it sneaks in through the cracks.

Are You Talking About the “Right” Thing in Therapy?

Therapy isn’t about choosing the “right” topic—it’s about what shows up when you speak from where you are.

What Happens When You Come to Therapy Unprepared?

You don’t need a plan for therapy to work. Some of the most meaningful sessions begin with “I don’t know.”