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Tension

NAIL Why did you pound me into wood, which sent shockwaves through me? I am held here captive between splinters and grain. WOOD Why did...

To Forgive a Psych Ward Doctor

It was 2018. I had already ridden a terrible wave of bipolar up and down many times. Between strained friendships, familial frustrations,...

Graceful Dissent

Then a prayer circle formed around me, praying my doubts would go away… Throughout middle and high school, I was closely involved in a...

Creation Story

In the beginning, there was the Word. The word created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and empty, and darkness was over...

It's a Devil Eat Devil World

“Everybody wants this. Everybody wants to be us.” - Miranda Priestly, The Devil Wears Prada [Note: This is a review of the film, The...

Engineering as Art

The tragic divorce of the STEM fields and the humanities was first documented in 1959 in C.P. Snow's seminal essay The Two Cultures and...

The Doors of Life

On the precipice of the future, I glanced into the past; aware of all that had been which could not last. Moving into the realm of...

Rooted

When you fell, you rejoiced at becoming new, but my roots cannot fill the crater you leave. You didn’t see how birds and beasts were...

My Gardening Mind

I recently read an article by Arthur Brooks which contends that cultivating multiple interests and doing different kinds of activities,...

A City and Hunger that Never Sleep

To be in need is one of our most human traits; we come into this world in incredible need, and we leave in incredible need. As infants,...

Hungering for Love

[Note: This is a review of the film, Phantom Thread, and includes spoilers for plot points throughout the film.] Love nourishes. Love...

Faith and Country Music

Songwriter Harlan Howard once described country music as “three chords and the truth.”1 Today, country music is often discounted as...

Shabbat Shalom for All

In the beginning God created, said, made, called, placed, and blessed all He made. And so the heavens and the earth were completed, and...

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