Archive - Weiss Journal

The Sanctuaries That Sustain Us

The places we go, and the people we keep, when the world grows cold

Jan 11 • John Patrick Weiss

This Once Mattered

Attention, effort, and the threads we cut

Jan 4 • John Patrick Weiss

December 2025

To Endure Without Spectacle

Time does not pause out of courtesy

Dec 27, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

The Case for the Unoptimized Life

Creation is an act of self-rescue

Dec 20, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

To Dance with the Barn Owl

A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer

Dec 17, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

Before the Doors Close for Good

That we remember who we are

Dec 13, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

The Eye Is the Lamp of the Body

The light we find in strangers

Dec 7, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

November 2025

Where the Quiet Breaks

The wounds of life do not discriminate

Nov 30, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

The Rings We Carry

What endures after a life is gone

Nov 22, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

Where Mercy Finds Us

Keep moving toward the light

Nov 18, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

The Angels Come to Visit Us

And we only know them when they are gone

Nov 16, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

The Poet Who Saved One Heart

Loss, kindness, and the quiet legacies we never see

Nov 13, 2025 • John Patrick Weiss

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