An Argument With a Ghost
Like most of us, I have a few relationships that seem to be more difficult than they need to be. One is with a brother who hasn’t spoken to me for twenty-six years. Over the years, I’ve made several attempts to get things to a better place between us, but I never heard back from him. It’s even strange to say we have a relationship. At this point, the only active relationship I have with him exists as a thought in the form of a memory, which is to say, a thought carried through time. The same is true for him. The only active relationship he has with me is based entirely in thought and memory.
What’s Sacred in Your World? Nothing, or Everything?
Until I was somewhere in my sixties, I lived in a world where almost nothing was sacred. There were a few things that seemed to me were obviously, absolutely sacred, but they were far outnumbered by what didn’t seem sacred. That seemed obvious to me, too. It’s funny how what seems obviously true at one point in your life seems just as obviously false at another point in your life.
Why Do We Hesitate to Express the Very Thing We’re All Made Of?
The last few weeks, I’ve been simultaneously navigating the effects of several health challenges. A nagging cough and cold, an ear infection, and the after-effects of oral surgery. It’s been a bit of a slog, and I knew enough to expect very little of myself because I was so completely drained by it.
The Slowest Ride I’ve Ever Taken
The last few weeks, I’ve been simultaneously navigating the effects of several health challenges. A nagging cough and cold, an ear infection, and the after-effects of oral surgery. It’s been a bit of a slog, and I knew enough to expect very little of myself because I was so completely drained by it.