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When I go it is grey outside. Shadows still merge with their source. Music is beat back into grasses and trees. I walk, barely. Life has...

Morning Hawk Brown feathers, smooth as frosting, conceal taut, predatory muscles. Bloodied wings sheath precisely as German knives in a...

Theology hijacks God tortures everyone through endless negotiations declines ransom and kills Him. Let's riot! Torch the brail libraries...

On leaving Israel after three years working with pediatric heart patients Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise, 1872 I was quietly counting...

That road through the country unspooling under a dark mountain massages my shins like wine. Cinnamoned cliffs protest my salt and pepper...

At Land's End in San Francisco surging waves assault the shore as if wanting to overthrow the static ideas on our static land. Bucking...

When summer's slumber gives way to a first prick of autumn breeze, I'm always carried to the hunt— The click of shotguns and earthy smell...

Like a bowlegged cowboy walking into Starbucks, both amused and repulsed by what he sees, Elon Musk strode into the headquarters of...

This essay was awarded first prize in Harvard Divinity School's Bicentennial Essay Contest. The prompt was: What will the academic study...

Liquid stones hurl trees and dreams of fire upwards through glass of storied power,   as Self is pinned under vaults housing the...

Whatever it is that we call “spirituality” has to go through the brain, the three pound organ under our skulls that has roughly 100...