About Odell Sneeden Hathaway III
About Odell Sneeden Hathaway III
I am a person who writes about almost everything: my ideas, opinions, history, and goals. This is my vanity press, a place where I think out loud in writing, reflecting on experience, meaning, and the ordinary problems of everyday life.
I think of myself primarily as a writer and philosopher. My work here grows out of a lifelong attempt to understand how people live, how they make sense of the world, and how opposing truths can exist at the same time. Earlier in life, I expected to become an Episcopal priest, but ultimately followed a different path, one that led through technology, aviation, personal challenges, and years of practical problem solving. Writing became the place where those paths came back together.
Professionally, I spent decades working in technology as a programmer and systems problem solver, particularly in long-lived business systems and environments that required patience, precision, and historical understanding. That work shaped how I approach questions, analytically and carefully, with respect for how systems evolve over time. While technology has been an important part of my life, this site is less about programming and more about reflection, perspective, and lived experience.
My writing is also shaped by personal experiences that changed how I understand time and resilience, including surviving cancer, living with dyslexia, medical challenges, and navigating difficult early life circumstances. These experiences inform my perspective, but they do not define it. Instead, they provide context for many of the themes that appear throughout the blog: health, persistence, freedom, responsibility, and the search for meaning in ordinary moments.
The subjects I return to most often include writing and reflection, personal history and memoir, health and recovery, and practical everyday problem-solving. Some posts are philosophical, some practical, some personal, and many are simply attempts to record life as it is lived rather than as it is summarized afterward.
This blog is part of an ongoing Weekly Update series, alongside essays, reflections, and longer narrative work. Together they form a record, not only of events, but of thought over time.
Influences and Quotations I Return To
“In order to find God you must first destroy god.” — Meister Eckhart
“The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’” — Ronald Reagan
“Magnificent Desolation.” — Buzz Aldrin
“Let’s go fly a kite.” — Dick Van Dyke
“Don’t just do something. Sit there.” — Lou Friedman
“When Mozart was my age, he had been dead for 12 years.” — Tom Lehrer
“Where was I? On a beach with at least 50 beautiful women, and a small team of experts working out new ways they could be nice to me!” — Zaphod Beeblebrox
“For nothing has ever been more insupportable for a man and a human society than freedom.” — Dostoevsky, The Grand Inquisitor
“Life is about carrying the opposites.” — Weaver Stevens
Elsewhere
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