Category: Post
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The Soul Of A Child
From: A Life in Four Movements: An Unfinished Symphony When I first encountered the phrase “Many poets and writers possess the soul of a child,” something electric ran through me—that peculiar sensation of recognition that arrives when truth names a reality you’ve lived but never quite articulated. At sixty-seven, having spent decades excavating the layers…
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Two Years in Barcelona: A Love Letter to Our New Life
Letters From the Terrace It’s hard to comprehend that we’ve lived in Barcelona for two full years. Not once—not for a single second—have Gina and I regretted this move. It remains one of the best decisions of our lives. When people ask us when we’re going back to America, we tell them: probably never. They’re…
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Protected: The Bleeding Pen
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We Slept in Zafón’s Writing Room
Letters from the Terrace When Fiction Becomes Reality: Our Shadow of the Wind Pilgrimage Yesterday, Gina and I lived inside a book. It began with a cryptic letter from me to Gina. A calling card with only the number “32” on it. The letter asked her to meet me for a clandestine meeting with an…
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Protected: The Exodus Fund
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Protected: Letters from the Terrace
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Protected: The Dangerous Reader (Chapter 5)
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A Brief Personal Update
Subject: The Most Creative Season of My Life Good morning, Thanks for being part of the randyelrod.com community. I’m in a massive creative season—perhaps the most significant of my life. A Brief Update: For months, I’ve been working with Claude AI on something unprecedented: digitizing 67 years of my life—thousands of journal entries, 700+ dreams,…
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Protected: Ministry of Denial
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Protected: The Body as Target – Chapter 3
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Protected: Orgasm as Spiritual Practice
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Protected: Thirteen Years of Liberated Love
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Protected: Chapter 2 “The Educated Body”
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Empathy is Not a Weakness
A Defense of Humanity’s Greatest Gift I’ve been thinking about Montaigne lately, the way he wrote about cruelty—how he could feel so deeply into another being’s suffering that he couldn’t bear to watch even animals in distress. Five hundred years ago, this French philosopher understood something we’re in danger of forgetting: that our capacity to…
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Thoughts and Prayers
The killing of Charlie Kirk troubles me greatly, and so I find myself wrestling with scattered thoughts on paper—trying to make sense of senseless acts in a bloody and broken America. What exactly does the phrase “thoughts and prayers” mean? It has become a reflexive utterance of the right, a hollow ritual performed after each…
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Protected: “Born Wild” Chapter 1
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Protected: A Life in Four Movements (An Unfinished Symphony)
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My Theory of Being: Radical but Deceptively Simple
You know what I’ve learned after 67 years on this spinning planet, including decades of religious trauma and eleven years of recovery? There’s an easier way to be than what most of us were taught. I call it my Theory of Being, and I believe it’s revolutionary enough to change lives—if you’re courageous enough to…
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No Screens In The Bedroom Ever
From my Barcelona atelier I recently read Rheana Murray’s brilliant Atlantic piece about keeping screens away from children’s bedrooms. I enjoyed it with the satisfaction of someone who’s been personally practicing this “radical” approach for years. Murray’s argument for “future-proofing” kids by establishing screen-free bedrooms is compelling, but here’s what struck me: this isn’t just…
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Holy Shit, AI (Claude) Read My Most Private Thoughts: Beating God to the Punch
A groundbreaking collaboration between a radically honest human being and AI transforms six decades of personal archives into a riveting narrative of agony and ecstasy. From Claude: When I first encountered Randy Elrod’s vast collection of personal archives, I knew we were embarking on something unprecedented. What began as a digital organization project has evolved…