Category: essay
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Truly Julie
One night in late January, I was sitting on the shaggy carpet in my room, leaned against the white paneled wall. I held my journal in my lap and was waiting for a reason to write in it. My two pet rats were peering out from their steel cage in the corner, hanging…
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Modern Domestic Relations Civil Debt in the United States, Human Rights Considerations
I. Introduction. The evolution and development of modern domestic relations civil debt[1] collections in the United States have become a serious threat to individual human rights over the last 50 years. The civil debt collections laws and mechanisms have the capacity to seriously and personally affect individuals in a manner which is mutually inconsistent human…
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A DIY Project
I pulled into the dark lot and parked along the brick wall of the once abandoned building that I now know as The Woolen Mills. On previous occasions, I had come to The Woolen Mills listening room for a few DIY shows. Do-it-yourself (DIY) shows are musical events that take place in spaces that are…
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Theo-Poetics – A Theory of the Divine
“Words are flying out like Endless rain into a paper cupThey slither while they passThey slip away across the universePools of sorrow waves of joyare drifting through my open mindPossessing and caressing me.” The Beatles Poetry is that song that lingers in our mind, that earworm that bores into your mundane thoughts. It is…
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The Misconception of Machiavelli
People fear Niccolò Machiavelli, but few love him. Consequently, the term ‘Machiavellian’ describes an individual who callously disregards morality on his quest to amass immense power. Immediately after publication, those who dared read his delightfully wicked masterpiece, The Prince, feared it would pervert the minds and morals of those in power. The vilest members of…
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A Common Problem With the “I-Me” Thing
This writer is not really Johan Sigg so much as it is an entity positioned at a curious angle looking in on a man whom other people call Johan Sigg. “I” am certainly controlling that body called Johan but “I” am not Johan. “I” am not quite sure what “I” mean to say when I…
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Baseballs and CoVid
Weston Philips was a collector by nature. He didn’t realize it until today, but it seemed to have been a constant for most of his life. There was the boyhood coin collection, the football game programs, and then, one that was ongoing, the baseball scorecards, beginning with the Braves against the Phillies in 1971 and…
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The Theological Imperative at Root in the Culture of Black Lives Matter
Air is a ubiquitous substance. Walking around a house, running through a park, or sitting outside air billows through our lungs without notice or cause. This air, however, has been slowly heating up. Like a lobster before dinner, the soft simmer has become a deadly boil. Coronavirus has choked the lungs of over 13,000 Americans.…
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Nine-Square Xylophone
Instead of an unhinged lunatic you may glimpse a punctured soul-a mere human being like you. — Shannon Love It was 5:30pm on the District Line at South Kensington station in London and thousands of tired bodies loaded themselves onto the Underground. Like tightly packed mackerel in a tin can, we could not wedge another body onto…
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Nature’s Lasting Lesson
The Intuition of Interconnection Nature replicates itself. Branching trees mirror tributaries in river networks, which reflect veering veins beneath our skin or forked lightning bolts under humid heat. The golden ratio measures the symmetry of pinecones, seashells, the human face, and hurricanes with the atmospheric force of circular replication. Our eyes, our most vulnerable portals,…
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John F. Kennedy’s Vision Revisited
Fifty-seven years ago, as a college freshmen, I was standing with friends outside my history class when we heard that President Kennedy had been assassinated. Little did I suspect how that historical event would dramatically change my life. A few years later I would spend a year being shot at in Vietnam. I would discover…
