darkness

As the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attack on America approaches, allow me to be among the first to offer some proposed insights into the twisted heaps of our psyches…

“We are waiting…for change, for the future, for news, for tenderness, for each other, for patience to wait some more.” That pitiably truthful vicious circle, in the [Philosopher’s] “Stone” of…

As I stopped on the bike to look at the hills, I was confronted by at least 100 crows. They were on the ground by the dozens, and dozens more…

It’s often been said that what begins in California spreads to the rest of the country, and the world. God help us if that’s still the case, because it feels…

I’ve been encountering so much darkness lately through what I call conduits (people that conduct evil as easily as copper conducts electricity) that I’ve been asking: Is there effectively only…

Even the name where the evil was methodically planned and executed was carefully chosen. Christchurch. The usual narratives for the New Zealand massacre are woefully inadequate: Islamophobia; immigration scapegoating; the…

Rare darkness is unusually excellent. It is darker than dark and more magical than possible. It is the gift of ultimate beauty and strength.

I received one of those robo-calls where initially you think there’s a human on the other end, but after the first programmed exchange, you realize it’s a computer. In the…