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About Poesophy:

Poesophy is wellness writing for we who celebrate the full human experience.

This is for readers who believe the examined life is the only life worth living well—who find spiritual nourishment in close reading, who believe that wrestling with Rilke or Romans or Shakespeare or Yeats is as practical as any morning routine, who have had it with listicles and short-form videos that insult their intelligence.

I embody eudaimonia through engagement with great literature, philosophy, and spiritual practice. Not theory. Not theology. Practice. The kind of sustained attention to what matters that trains the mind to know and the heart to love.

What You’ll Find Here:

Most weeks, I publish twice:

Mondays: Close reading as spiritual practice. I choose a poem, passage, or text and read it slowly—showing how sustained attention reveals layers of meaning and patterns for living. You’ll find time-tested masters and contemporary geniuses, all drawn out in conversational explication.

Fridays: Lived philosophy. How concepts from Stoicism, Buddhism, Christian tradition, and other wisdom literatures apply to actual human experience. Philosophy as equipment for living, jargon-free.

Sundays (occasional): Original poems and shorter reflections on beauty, meaning, and the contemplative life.

Who I Am:

I’m Aaron McNally. I have a Master’s degree in English and worked as a features writer for the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier. I read scripture daily, practice meditation, and believe that beauty isn’t luxury—it’s equipment for being fully human.

This year I’m reading the whole of Shakespeare. Come along.

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