“God doesn’t give you more than you can handle.” I’ve heard that many times. It’s venomous. It’s a sugar-coated and harmful lie. Some who suffer even believe it, cling to it, and therein lies the tragedy. This is where spiritually…
Imagine sneezing, and splattering someone with your phlegm, intentionally. That image lives within the realm of cringe. You wouldn’t even walk over to the couple at the far end of the restaurant, and take a deep pull from your Lucky…
Matted blonde hair was still damp from the drizzle earlier. Her partner once approached me when I purchased a burger, and I got two more for them. Maybe she didn’t recognize me, or rather adhered to some arbitrary code of…
Don’t show your monsters and don’t explain them. Some creators in the horror genre live by those rules. Well, yeah, at some point in the movie you have to show something, but initially it makes sense to generate tension. Remember how…
Hope is an illusion, mostly. It isn’t fabricated, and packaged in neat little bite-sized nibbles, floating around for consumption. Hey Joe, didn’t you get retrenched last week? Quick, grab that purple one, it’s flying your way, it includes hope for…
I watched a live video of a village being destroyed. How do I respond to tragedy, and to the scary things I witness daily? How do I handle it? This question becomes universal, even if you never articulate it in…
I remember the immediate aftermath, there on the highway. We got sandwiched between other cars during a mid-morning accident. My wife and I were fine, but our little car wasn’t. The bodywork looked OK-ish from the outside, but logic told…
You ask, what’s the point? Why carry on, why do people carry on? That is 100% legit, because that’s what you feel. It’s no surprise you aren’t the only one. Experiencing futility, existential angst, among other things becomes one of…
Every messiah has to die. I watched a new managerial god fly in, and while the wrapped coupe was cooling in the basement, he gathered the middle-management saints, who in turn assembled the sinners. Together, they would transform stale tickets…
The pain doesn’t simply go away. Samantha did leave. After the loss of her child, she relocated to paradise. Beaches, sun, and waves. But she returned a few years later, and settled back into the city. “There are people committing…