A Friday Prayer
The peach looked beautiful. It had the feel of a peach that was ripe but not too ripe and it smelled perfect. Inside it was rotten to the core. I discovered this as I was cutting it into slices. So...
View ArticleFerdinand’s Secret
Ferdinand’s Secret by Anonymous I am happy to see the story of Ferdinand, that gentle, flower-sniffing, pacifist bull has made the big screen. I have not seen the film, but unless it completely...
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“There’s really no such thing as the voiceless. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”Arundhati Roy I opened my email this morning to find a message from a friend who...
View ArticleWe Aren’t All Okay
You know those signs that appear on pretty suburban lawns? The ones that say “It’s all going to be okay!” or “Everything will be okay!” in cheery colors? Well guess what!? We aren’t all okay. We are...
View ArticleThe Big Questions
In March of this year I happened on an opinion piece in the New York Times titled “The Empty Religions of Instagram.” The subtitle was telling “How did influencers become our moral authorities?” I am...
View ArticleIdentity as Performance or Participation
September in the Northeast is a month of warm days, cooler nights, and the lingering magic of summer. The last several evenings we have spent at the ocean, taking long walks during low tide, reveling…...
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