Some wise words from Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life
“I wanted to be loved because I was great; A big man. I’m nothing. Look at the glory around us; trees, birds. I lived in shame. I dishonored it all, and didn’t notice the glory. I’m a foolish man.”
Journal Article: Politics of Health: “Nature” at the Intersection of Religion, Disability and Ecology
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Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day
[What follows is a guest column I wrote for The Crescent News (Defiance, OH). It was published on Jan. 18, 2016.] While many celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr., his complexity has been largely erased from our memories. He has been sentimentalized to such an extent that the radical nature of his message has been lost. Even…
My Little Golden Book about Zogg
Resistance is futile.
Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox
Strange, disturbing reading material for the day: Read the letter the FBI sent MLK to try to convince him to kill himself – Vox.
Borges and God by Jorge Luis Borges and Osvaldo Ferrari | NYRblog | The New York Review of Books
In fact, that’s what it is. If we are something, we are our past, aren’t we? Our past is not what can be recorded in a biography or in the newspapers. Our past is our memory. That memory can be hidden or inaccurate—it doesn’t matter. It’s there, isn’t it? It can be a lie but…
