Context: “In this moment I can’t help but to sift through my memories: the good, the bad, and the in-between.” 18 June 2022 Monday 11:00 PM I know I talk too much. It has always been an insecurity I use to attack myself. Especially when I feel embarrassed, whether because I have misspoken or been…
Context: “I was reminded why being vulnerable with people renders a desire for capital punishment.” 05 June 2022 If you ask me, performative empathy is worse than being unempathetic. At least you know, when someone is incapable of feeling empathy, the logic or reasoning behind attitude and behavior. It feels humane. Sure you can be…
Bred and raised—the fence our only measure of distance.I seek nourishment from what grows;you prefer the taste of those who walk. Sacred darkness summons us to meet.Our eyes lock through the fence—a holy gaze,your eucharistic mystery poisedto be received,to be consumed,to grant life everlasting. Take a bite.Remember my plight. Take a sip.Savor words—my incarnate lips….
Don’t Dismiss Time’s Infinity x∞ There has never been a dawn where the Sun betrayed its course— never a morning when it rose in the West, only to fall again into an Eastern grave. Spend your seconds— all two billion of them— trying to prove me wrong. You will waste a life in the effort….
I was ready to give up… close the pages to my book… slowly moving towards the switch to turn my porch light off until you asked me a question during the middle of a class assignment in first period: “Did you do the homework for today?” Your question was the match that ignited a torch…
There was a time when I believed in love, I don’t know if it was romantic movies, love songs, or novels, but there was a time when I believed in love. When I saw love, the sky lit up brighter than the Fourth of July, When I tasted love, no food or drink could slake…
It is strange to reflect on the words, sentences, and thoughts that have already filled these pages. My language is poetry. I may not make sense to you, but I make sense to me. I’m never finished, always evolving. Yet, I feel a chilling madness, rereading the pages I make love to. I cut out…
By Alejandro Anderson 05 September 2025 Introduction The history of knowledge is shaped by both preservation and loss. Few examples illustrate this duality more starkly than the Library of Alexandria and the Dead Sea Scrolls. The former epitomizes humanity’s ambition to collect and centralize wisdom but also the fragility of that endeavor; the latter demonstrates…
When you think you like someone, you feel your emotions begin to rise. It’s 1:00am and you know you have work in the early morning, but still, you can’t stop texting them. Only fools let the present moment fizzle caution for future events. And I am a fool. In the early stages, you feel yourself…
In America, freedom is often spoken of in lofty terms—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. But in practice, freedom is only as real as the money in people’s pockets and the access they have to affordable credit. And that’s where two forces—the U.S. government and JPMorgan Chase—quietly define the boundaries of what most households…