Gossip after mass
All the financial literacy books you told me to read advised me to never get
into any debt
But the C.S. Lewis book you gave me said if I wasn’t in any debt, if I am not
uncomfortable, then I am not doing enough
You tell me all
Jethro Castillo
Why the pro-life movement is fundamentally flawed.
I also believe the pro-life/pro-choice debate is counterproductive. I also also believe that this is because there is something at play exercising control so that we will never get to that answer in our current state.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
On April 4, 1968, a man was shot and killed not because he had a dream, but
because his dream threatened to change the lives of those in power. Even though
the man believed in non-violence, he was violently assassinated in the hopes
that the status quo could be maintained.
Thoughts that have been sitting in my notes // unfinished poems
I am sorry for my absence. I go through phases where I have difficulty following
through with anything. I am too anxious to start things, and when I do, I get
too anxious to finish. I won’t explain that now. The important part is that I am
just getting
A birthday reflection
One of my favorite professors told me just a few days ago: "The point of life, if there is any, is to experience as many different ways of being human as possible." And being human is incredibly complex. What does it mean to be human?
Freckles
The sun loved you so much when you were young
That it peppered you with kisses
Not in any order or with any pattern
Just in a way that said,
“I love you.”
Now your freckles have faded
And your pale complexion only burns from its rays
It’s not
The miracle of having twelve baskets leftover
Whether you are religious or not, there’s this remarkable miracle in the Bible known as the “Feeding of the 5,000”.
Tickets for Two
Let’s go to the movies
I’ll buy us tickets for two.
Yes, this is a date,
and yes, I’m asking you.
Bright, brown eyes
Bright, brown eyes
which tell stories
Stories of hurt
And heartbreak
And pain
But also
Stories of hope
And love
And healing
And those eyes
That show the paradox and the nuance
Well
That's life
Bright, brown eyes
In them, you see the world
And we are all the better
When we strive to love
When we strive to love,
sometimes we forget to include ourselves
And we wage war against our own hearts.
And often, it seems as if we are fighting that war on our own.
But when the guns are drawn
and the trebuchets are swinging
You find
to your left and