Collections

Curated groupings of essays and posts organized by theme. Each collection gathers related writing from across the full arc of this blog. My way of sharing my work the way I think about it.

Watercolour painting of a lush garden scene dominated by deep and yellow-greens, with clusters of soft lavender-pink flowering lilacs blooming throughout dense foliage. Small white wildflowers dot the lower foreground. The brushwork is loose and impressionistic, with washes of colour blending into the cream-white of the unpainted paper at the upper left. Hints of red stems and teal leaves add contrast within the greenery.

Personal Favourites

A curated selection of my best and most beloved work across all genres and topics!

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Impressionist interior scene: a woman in a white dress leans over a mahogany writing desk, pen in hand, beside a leaded-glass window with a bookcase behind her. To the right, a girl in a patterned dress and dark hair bow sits in a wingback chair reading a small blue book, lit by a white ceramic lamp on a side table

Writing Craft

Essays on the art and practice of writing. Technique, process, and the life of a writer.

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A black ink illustration on a rainbow gradient background that shifts from yellow-green at the left through orange, pink, and purple to blue at the right. The illustration depicts a large spider web rendered as concentric semicircular arcs radiating outward from a central point at the bottom, with radial lines crossing them in a dotted, hand-drawn style. At the center bottom sits a stylized spider figure surrounded by a geometric mandala of triangles and star-like forms, set against a bright magenta-pink circle. The entire composition is framed by a rectangular border decorated with repeating geometric diamond and triangle motifs along the edges. Small flies are scattered throughout the web

IndieWeb

Building and living on the independent web. Personal sites, protocols, principles, and digital ownership.

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An impressionist oil painting depicting a lively outdoor folk dance. Dozens of figures in vibrant traditional costumes. Reds, pinks, greens, yellows, and oranges. All gathered in a swirling mass, suggesting energetic movement. The crowd fills most of the canvas; individual faces are not distinguishable, but the sense of collective festivity is strong. Dark tree trunks and a pale, loosely painted sky frame the scene from above. The paint is applied in short, expressive strokes with visible texture. The artist's signature, reading 'Mousson,' appears in the lower left corner.

Community

On belonging, connection, and the power of people coming together, both online and off.

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Screenshot of the JavaScript file (main.js) open in a code editor, showing a function called initCopyButtons that adds 'Copy' buttons to code blocks on a webpage. The file is part of the brennan.day 11ty project, visible in the left-hand file tree. The code targets pre and code elements, creates button elements with clipboard functionality, and includes a fallback for older browsers using execCommand. The status bar shows the file was last committed by Brennan Kenneth Brown.

Technical Tutorials

Step-by-step guides for building things on the web and working with developer tools.

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A Baroque-style allegorical ceiling painting depicting classical female figures representing virtues or goddesses, including one crowned figure in pink robes and one in blue holding a quill and documents, seated on clouds surrounded by cherubs. Additional allegorical figures appear in the lower register, one holding an olive branch with a molecular diagram drawn on her chest, another carrying a shield and spear. Scattered legal documents float in the lower right corner. Overlaid across the entire composition is aggressive graffiti tagging in black and deep red, with a graffiti rendering of the scales of justice at the top center.

Politics

Commentary on power, justice, and the political forces shaping our world.

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So I leave you with a smile, kiss you on the cheek, And you will call it treason

Culture

Critical takes on film, television, music, and the art we consume together.

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Scan of an open Japanese book showing two pages. The left page is a deep red cover featuring a white circle containing stylized red seaweed fronds with curling spiral tops and a red seahorse; small red leaf motifs and dark coral branches appear at the bottom. Text at the bottom reads '東京 隆文館藏版'' (Tokyo Ryūbunkan zōhan — a Tokyo publisher). The right page is white and shows a single stylized flower or plant — resembling a bird-of-paradise bloom on a slender stem — rising from a flat red concentric spiral that suggests ripples on water. Japanese characters in the upper right read '小説 渦巻' (Shōsetsu Uzumakim, meaning 'Novel: Spiral' or 'Whirlpool').

Lyric Essays

Essays that blur the line between prose and poetry. Fragmentary, associative, and deeply personal.

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A digital illustration showing a person at a desk with a computer, surrounded by floating icons and symbols representing AI and technology. The composition uses a warm color palette with oranges, yellows, and reds.

AI

Reflections on artificial intelligence, machine learning, and what it means to be human in an age of thinking machines.

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Le drapeau du Québec, le Fleurdelisé, bleu et blanc orné de quatre fleurs de lys, flotte au vent sur un mât au premier plan. En arrière-plan s'étend une vue aérienne de la ville de Québec en hiver : toits enneigés, architecture patrimoniale en briques rouges, toitures en cuivre vert aux pignons caractéristiques du Vieux-Québec, et la silhouette du centre-ville moderne à l'horizon, sous un ciel bleu parsemé de nuages dorés par la lumière rasante.

French

Writing in the French language.Culture, littérature et mon parcours avec la langue française.

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Oil painting of three farm workers binding wheat sheaves into stooks at sunset. A man on the left lifts a bundle of wheat onto a stack, a woman in a white blouse and bonnet carries an armful of cut wheat toward the stack, and a second woman crouches in the foreground gathering stalks. Rows of wheat stooks dot the golden stubble field under a pastel sky with a low orange sun on the horizon. Signed 'L. Lhermitte' in the lower left.

History

Essays on the past—events, figures, and movements that shaped the world we live in today.

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A healthcare worker in full protective equipment, including a blue gown, surgical cap, face mask, and gloves, sits exhausted on the floor of a hospital hallway, leaning against a medical cart. The corridor stretches behind them with empty gurneys and medical equipment visible along the pale walls under fluorescent lighting, conveying the physical and emotional toll of frontline medical work.

Science

Explorations of scientific discovery, research, and the natural world, ranging from physics to biology to astronomy.

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An outdoor powwow or Indigenous ceremonial gathering set against an overcast urban skyline. The left foreground is filled with a large, strikingly colourful regalia bustle. Concentric rings of neon yellow, red, orange, and purple feathers with long white ribbon fringe. In the mid-ground, several figures stand on a grassy field; two wear large traditional eagle feather headdresses that face away from the camera, their faces obscured. One person wears a Northwest Coast-style button blanket or cape featuring black-and-white formline design. The gathering includes people in both traditional regalia and everyday clothing. A highrise tower is visible through the cloudy sky in the distance, situating this cultural gathering within a contemporary urban landscape.

Indigenous

Writing on Indigenous identity, Métis heritage, Treaty 7 territory, and Indigenous sovereignty and resurgence.

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A chromolithograph Masonic certificate depicting a layered allegorical landscape. At the top, the All-Seeing Eye radiates light from within a sunburst above a celestial temple building. Below it, a hilltop scene shows knights and horses beneath a starry night sky on the left and a rainbow with a rising sun on the right. In the centre, an arched inscription reads 'I Am That I Am. Exod. III:4,' framing a gateway marked with Masonic symbols including the letter G and Alpha and Omega. The surrounding landscape includes biblical scenes: workers building structures at lower left, Noah's Ark on floodwaters at right, and the Tabernacle in the distance. Blank lines throughout indicate spaces for a member's name and dates to be filled in.

Religion

Essays on faith, spirituality, religious traditions, and the search for meaning.

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