Tag: life
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Oh the Tapestries we weave
Borders are pointless. They’re just artificial constraints rooted in outdated fictions that separate us, as if geography defines worth. Nationalism breeds division and strangleholds us with power imbalances. It’s time to yank on that thread of nationalism, unraveling the collective insanity, and embrace our shared humanity instead of maintaining childish boundaries.
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I would be the fifth guy in the string quartet playing a kazoo
Life’s just a sinking ship, drifting toward inevitable disaster. Each of us battles our personal Titanic, teetering on the edge of despair, where deeper dives risk implosion. Amidst this chaos, one must choose how to navigate the depths—even if it means playing a kazoo in the orchestra of absurdity.
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Lessons from Gram: Spreading Kindness and Joy
I don’t think a day goes by that I don’t think of my grandmother, Rosemary. She was just a force of loving-kindness. I can only hope to leave half the mark on the world that she did in her 66 years. So many of the qualities I like about myself come from her. And she…
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Opportunity in Change
Sometimes a huge and terrifying change can be an opportunity. My knee-jerk response to a change is to bristle, panic (even that invisible internal panic that nobody sees, but flutters across my chest like a rabid butterfly), and bemoan my fate. But so many times an unwelcome change has shown up at my threshold; it…
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Unmasking the Twin
My name means Twin. Thomas comes from Didymus, which means Twin. I’m not sure what that means in the grand scheme of things. I’m my own twin? I hold the potentiality of a twin? In the Christian tradition, Thomas was an apostle. Some Gnostic readings refer to him as Jesus’s twin. Canon maligns him as…
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Sunday, March 12, 2017. Of course it was a Sunday. Sundays have always been hard for me. (I was going to type “hard”… then I thought “‘difficult’ would be better” and I started to type “difficult” and then I went back to “hard” because sometimes you really don’t need more syllables to make the same…