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Beholding and Becoming

Jorge Luis Borges is an Argentine writer who is known for his short stories. His work is philosophical and paradoxical. As a magical...

My Soul Body

Can you remember the first time you became aware of your own body? Perhaps you fell off your bike and scraped both knees, perhaps you...

You Might Be a Heretic If

Brother Worthy was having a quiet day sitting in the abbey’s garden tending to his prayers and reading when the young man Jeff Faux...

He Knows

I kneel in tender broken darkness He knows My knees splayed against my ribs He knows My chest rises and falls He knows this feeling too...

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,...

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