June 26, 2022
There’s a story I’ve always liked of an old Egyptian monk, from about 1,400 years ago, living in what today is called Wadi al Natrun, southwest of the city of Alexandria. He stepped out of his cell one night and saw the devil himself handing out gardening implements to all the other monks—shovels, spades, a scythe […]
June 19, 2022
It should change everything, what we do here.
May 29, 2022
I keep thinking of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, what he said once, that, “The wicked walk round in circles.”[1]
May 21, 2022
I have long been a reader and have learned much from Julia Kristeva, a profound thinker, a philosopher, a literary critic, a poststructuralist, and a feminist in somewhat the French style. It is her work and writing as a psychoanalyst, however, that’s had the most influence on me.