Self-central Casting
For those with main character syndrome, what occurs is not a lack of feeling, but a lack of understanding. Hindsight, foresight and insight are banished for the sake of a romanticized fantasy that places them at its center.
Who is Laying Hands on Our Children?
The obvious ones deserving a millstone necklace include financier pedophiles . . . but what about certain schoolteachers who turn their classrooms into a type of jihadi Madrasa, a religious school for the incubation of destructive mindsets?
The Inside Out Story
In the world you will have . . . the content of their character, coming out as . . .
The Inside Story
When everyone saw me bounce off the stretcher, grab it and run out, they were utterly astounded. They began praising God saying, “We’ve never seen anything like this!”
These Things Happen
The Victorian style houses on Rosy Hill Street, adorned earlier in the year with roses, hydrangeas, and ornamental grasses, were now festooned with glowing Christmas light bulbs. Passers-by would also behold Santas, reindeer, snowmen, candy canes, nutcrackers, candles, and festive garlands and wreaths. Looking inside, they could catch a glimpse of the stir of Christmas morning. Except at the Arts and Crafts Victorian house near the top of Rosy Hill Street. The Healey family – Tom, Cheri and their two young children, Alan and Angeline – was five hundred miles away at the bedside of Donna, Tom’s sister.
The End is Year
2025. Those of us striving to maintain the good, the true, the beautiful, and our precious homeland felt a hard-to-name force displacing us from the “past, people, place, and prayer” (Kingsnorth).
Incarnation Day
Three Luci Shaw poems for Incarnation Day.
Reduced to Alibis?
The death of a child is one of the most difficult and traumatic events a husband and wife can experience. Coping and getting on with life after the loss of a child seems almost impossible. The death of a spouse is also tragic.
Anton Chekhov, in his short story “Enemies,” brings together both tragedies and their effects on the two main characters.
A Mind is a Terrible Thing to Hand Over
When we hear someone say crazy things, we might say “Yeah, right” and shrug it off. But when a group of people say crazy things in concert and people agree with said crazy things, we wonder “What in the world is going on?”
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