Fabled Bear Attack
While I've never ventured deep in dangerous forests, I've tread through a fair share of cities, and let me tell you, it's a jungle out there. Any city kid has grown up on a small diet of fair warnings of the risks lurking in
Sympathy for the Light-Bearer
Everyone has a take on Lucifer. Lux-fer would be the etymology. The Light-bearer in Latin. That is the whole of his title — light, and the carrying of it. This figure never changes and the facts around him never change. What is up to debate is the story we
Canto V
Yes, great idea, I thought, when a friend suggested we write on the topic of lust. I began closing my apps. Gallery, Messenger, browser, dating app. Of course. The cold wind of personal recognition that I too am a dirty sinner destined to the pits. In Dante's mind,
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Memento mori
Everything comes to pass. This moment too shall pass by because you will continue- like with everything else in life. You will continue like you have always done and these words will too soon be behind you. Good times come and go, and bad times come and go. No thing
Méritance
Ah yes. The international online sport of French bashing. This social hobby dates back to the Hundred Years' War and can be traced through the ages with every political tension when France has policy disagreements with its western neighbours — and some of those disagreements are weighty enough to deserve
On Justice.
On earth as it is in heaven. My feelings on justice are that I'm sitting on a fence. With one side being condemnation, and the other being justice itself. It would be so easy and satisfying to just let wrath loose. It's so satisfyingly consuming to
The Good
We’re so focused on beauty, so desperate for truth, we have forgotten the good entirely. The Good is what makes us wrestle, alone, with our inner world. It breaks down our internal presumptions and barriers. It puts us in a place where we must choose for ourselves to become
Karma
I was eleven, maybe twelve, and fasting with my father in high summer. I was sitting on a floor cushion in front of the TV in mid afternoon, watching with the kind of attention children often do. The summer holiday left long, time expanding in relation to my grumbling stomach
Vipers and cherries
I found myself washing in the Vatican showers, probably not all that far away from the pope, and thought how hard it had been to arrive even here. I wasn't sure if it was the Italians or the church that were bloody useless. And I thought — why in
A Warmonger You Are
One face is named love. The other is named war. The name of the coin is passion — and when you stop looking at which face you're holding, you've left the outcome to chance. We don't think of ourselves as people who wage war. Warmongers
The flasher’s trench coat
A critique. No. I haven't read Hegel. And I know what you're thinking if you have- tugh, she hasn't even read Hegel. (Told you) I've not read Hegel because it's not that his ideas lack value, but because the way