I’m restarting this blog with a renewed commitment to the maxim that started it:

“Write one true sentence. Write the truest thing you know.”
– Ernest Hemingway

Writing the truth actually requires writing very little. The court orders us to “tell nothing but the truth”! Anything other than the truth is superfluous, and therefore distracting from it, and therefore must be excised. The truth looks like Michelangelo’s David, or a Mac: executed with nothing to spare.

Hem’s style bootstraps itself from that instruction. Hank Williams came from the same simple, direct place. These are my idols but I am my own man, and here is the truest thing I know:

Behind every thing that has a name, there is a perfect version of that thing, and the closer you get to that perfect version of it, the brighter it shines.