What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

I just this morning finished Juan Santos’ last post in his Apocalypse No! series: The Lessons of Gaza in a Time of Collapse and Rebirth. As I write this a couple of tears well up. I miss Rafael a great deal, a man whom I never met in the flesh and yet called brother, a [...]

It’s been months since I’ve had the desire to write anything other than personal journal entries which are some hybrid vehicle of spiritual discipline and self-psychotherapy. I write in my journal to peel away layers of the culture- and family-of-origin plastered onion, to find the deeper, more authentic voice of self that emerges with that [...]

“Let us again, ‘think outside of the box’.” These words greet me even before the rising sun, sent through wires and cables and the very air itself from an old friend now far, far away. A new leader sits in an oval office. A new “moral order is starting to make its way back into [...]

… as a rave, a rant, a rock, a roll. Think of this as a goof. Think of this as a trial balloon, a smoke signal, a searchlight in the night sky. Think of this as a reflecting pool. Think of this, if you think of it at all, as a mumbled prayer spoken in [...]