Thrown Off Balance

“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.”
― Flannery O’Connor

Your Best Lent Now

It seems to me, and your own experience will bear this out, that This Instant is the impetus of Your Best Life Now and that self-help schemes produce the thinness and self-deception of a tenuous now.

Truest Grit

“I don’t go in to visit these girls and give them a tract and say ‘God bless you,’ and invite them around to take tea with me. That’s not my kind of work. There are some girls that it’s mighty hard to help, but there are some little, fresh young things that have just been brought to Chinatown, and that you can sometimes reach in time to save them.” -Rose Livingston

Give Me the Old Old Old Time Religion

“The church is like a country club.”
That’s what I said to my parents as a teenager back in the 60s.

2024: “Don’t You Care?”

What do we talk about when we talk about apocalypse?

Her Night Before Christmas

Past, present, and future, like specters, enter her thoughts.

Choose Your Advent

Should we hope that with the advent of the New World Order that things will be put right?

Revolutions of the Soul

I’ve learned how true revolution takes place. It’s not through mad passions but through everyday empathy and love and the tiny alterations of the heart and mind that move us in that direction . . .