Take the word Mother
Take the word mother. To use this word it is not necessary to radiate maternal concern, to feel longings and stirrings, to be motherly. But it is possible to us...
Category: Anthropology
You and I and We
We praise the skill of the athlete, the hyper-drive of human limbs, the physiology of will, the suffering to win. We admire the minds that debone matter, with t...
Orion’s mission statement and ‘Bellhouse Bay’
I had prepared a few paragraphs, not only to describe the exciting way Orion Magazine’s new mission statement came together, but to expand on the soul and...
Lamentations and poetry’s high calling
Perhaps it’s this illness, but my mind is a windowless basement. At the moment, a bit feverish, pallid, shaky—on the broader realm, the memory for spellin...