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Why I Never Settled for Agnosticism
“Why”? I hear that a lot now with an almost three-year-old at my side. I remember hearing it a lot in college too. Agnosticism was popular among my peers, and it certainly seemed comfortable. But as my chatty three-year-old has taught me, there are two ways to ask “Why”? One is out of genuine curiosity, […]
Garbage and the Cosmos
It’s funny how easy it is to mistake the magnificent for mundane. How easily I shrug off the cosmos as ordinary because I choose to look down and feel important, rather than looking up and feeling very, very small. The other night I took our garbage out, and instead of rushing inside away from the […]
One Shade of Red
Valentine’s Day is this weekend, and while I actually kind of hate the Hallmark holiday of “love” (because Saint Valentine was a martyr and that seems like a weird thing to relate to flowers and chocolates), I felt the need to write a bit on the subject, mostly because the movie “Fifty Shades of Grey” is […]
Black Ink and the Leading Light
I recently had a very large tattoo forever imprinted in my skin. A few people have asked what it means. It’s a lengthy story, five years in the making, but it begins here: 5 years and some odd months ago I visited a small village full of beautiful, hurting children. Wary of us at first, they […]
The Lust of Wandering
Wanderlust is such a popular term, such a glorified thing. I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise when lusts of every kind are praised in our culture; be it materialism, sexual lust, gluttony or wanderlust, lust is a god our culture worships in throngs. Recently I have heard the term Wanderlust used so often; with books […]
Oceans Never Fill 