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