Month: January 2021

— But glories rested in you, and world-shouldering braveries, and words fell through you onto paperas sweetly as soft rain—Glenn Shea, The World is Nothing, a meditation on John Keats There is another side to all this, though: Jesus’ innermost dignity cannot be taken from him. The hidden God remains present within him. Even the man subjected to…

I am happy in unbearable way. when you have to danceand cannot dance hard enough to let allthe peace and contentment bubblinginside you run into the worldhappy in a way earned back after so many years,Put back together with the confidence and joy of being twentythe simplicity of being young—earned back with patience, tears, and…

I hate ellipses in texts, unless they are in iMessage, indicating that someone is writing to me – rather than demanding, emotional labor from me to guess what they mean to say – they move in rippling waves like snapping ropes they are straight dopamine into my nucleus accumbens. Right now, three people of them…

Said the priest.Funny that he thinks “father” is something to be got around,An obstacle to thinking rather than aid,A barrier or blockade rather than,What I imagine they are, a bulwark,Foundation—like the earth,Without which, trees cannot reach the sky. Perhaps this is why God is thought of often,rightly,as a mother.Mothers have borders, lines, and edges.They surround…

This is the Word that created this whole world and enlightens it by his loving wisdom. — Athanasius Alright, so here’s a little phrase that is part of the Catholics for Trump world/ QAnon Catholic Gnosticism that is lost on me. I mean, all of it is lost on me, but this phrase in particular I…

I often try to trace my intellectual path from what I once believed to what I believe now, not because I think that there is any difference, but because the people who I agree with have changed. And that’s odd. This morning, I realized that Annie Dillard taught me so much, but not least among…