Briscoe is a literature major.
More specifically, he loves romantic era of poetry and is a poet himself. He particularly loves Rime of The Ancient Mariner.
He is an Enneagram 9w1 like you if that gives you a sense of what he is like. Indecision is always there because of his aptitude to see so many perspectives and the validity in them, which also makes him a person keenly aware of the grace to be given, no matter the recipient.
He is always intrigued by how words and narrative can relate people and communicate the experiences of this life. If anyone holds love and intentionality for others and for life and the search for capital-T Truth, it is him.
If anyone has discernment and wisdom and is able to speak it into others, it is him, despite He is no stranger to broken families, mental illness, and the pangs of loneliness or doubt in the faith he holds(which is always changing really).
I think the works of art we have bonded most over are ones that embrace the pains of life- the ones that don't turn the complicatedness of life into trite sayings but acknowledge them and agree to keep going and keep living and "keep forgiving"
We've grown up reformed Baptist, and have had a continued sense of reimagining what 'faith' is over the years, and I think the art that embraces faith and doubt and pain and even more the beauty beyond it all have been the pieces that have struck a note with him the most.
If I am to trust the rumors of friends, it sounds as though making acquaintances could just as quickly evolve into a kindred spiritedness wherein we find ourselves both umbrella’d by truth and tripping over checklists atop cornerstones that continue to affirm sure footings (and don’t change - per se), but love to make us dance.
Such is—perhaps—the nature of a God who spoke in parables: risking cracks in our foundations like lines in the sand, before obliterating chronic analyses with forgiveness and an invitation to new life, while everyone we’re afraid of (including ourselves) drops their stones.