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
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