Jesse Timm

November 27, 2017

The Temporal Nature of All Things

Jesse Timm

November 27, 2017

It’s after two in the morning. I just returned from my third half marathon in twenty-four hours. That’s about thirty-nine miles all said and done. I’m exhausted, but incredibly grateful...

Jesse Timm

October 9, 2017

Beauty: Wonderful Despair

Jesse Timm

October 9, 2017

Beauty is both a source of inspiration and of despair. It fills the soul with wonder, joy, and hope, while simultaneously crushing dreams, inviting doubt, and breaking the spirit...

Jesse Timm

September 11, 2017

Spiders and Racism: An Exploration

Jesse Timm

September 11, 2017

As a child, I was fascinated with creepy crawly things: insects, reptiles, amphibians…the works...

Jesse Timm

August 28, 2017

My Own Two Feet

Jesse Timm

August 28, 2017

I went for a run this evening (shocking, I know). It was an eight-mile jaunt down to the waterfront and back. I didn’t take a watch or a phone. I don’t know if I was fast or slow. I couldn’t even begin to tell you what my average split might have been...

Jesse Timm

August 7, 2017

Perspective

Jesse Timm

August 7, 2017

Time has this strange way changing everything. It’s rarely sudden. And yet, one day you wake up and find out that everything is entirely different...

Jesse Timm

July 17, 2017

The Gamble of Curiosity

Jesse Timm

July 17, 2017

It’s no secret that I love running. And I’m not using the word love in the hyperbolic sense meant to convey that I really, really like it...

Jesse Timm

June 26, 2017

Questions for Happy People

Jesse Timm

June 26, 2017

Are you happy? When was the last time you were sad? When was the last time you were really sad?

Jesse Timm

March 20, 2017

Suffering

Jesse Timm

March 20, 2017

I recently participated in an event that challenged every aspect of endurance: mentally, physically, emotionally, etc. I was one member on a team of six and, between us, we ran almost two hundred total miles...

Jesse Timm

January 9, 2017

Progress Is Slow

Jesse Timm

January 9, 2017

It’s funny. When I was in high school, I ran track and cross country and, when I started, I was remarkably slow...

Jesse Timm

December 19, 2016

A Prerequisite Called Loneliness

Jesse Timm

December 19, 2016

I’m a lonely person. And I’ve been lonely for upwards of about a decade now. At first, it just manifested as lonerism, as Tame Impala might say. But as time went on, that loneliness wove itself into the very fabric of my personality.

Jesse Timm

November 15, 2016

For Progressives

Jesse Timm

November 15, 2016

We lost. And we lost bigly. I feel it. I know you feel it too. The hurt, the resentment, the anger, the despair…it’s all too real.

Jesse Timm

November 15, 2016

For Conservatives

Jesse Timm

November 15, 2016

I envy you. I do. I’ve tasted triumph. I’ve enjoyed victory. I know what it means to have your opinion, your convictions, your sacred beliefs validated. I know how it feels to be a winner.