Categoría: essay
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The sacred lace by Susana Cabaço
The intricacy of life, like an ethereal and tangible delicate lace, tells that nothing exists or happens in isolation, and so no one is ever truly alone. There’s a grander connection and grace that organically and sacredly looks after all and the whole. Each and every thread and crochet point…
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THE PORTABLE HOMELAND. Juan Re Crivello and the Invention of a Literature by Rafael Julivert Ramírez
The Portable Homeland is the first comprehensive study devoted to the work of Juan Re Crivello, an Argentine writer based in Catalonia (Spain) whose literature has grown outside conventional literary circuits, between self-publishing, blogging, Facebook, family memory and a stubborn determination to turn the experience of uprooting into literary matter.…
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What Writing Means for J. Ré Crivello: THE PORTABLE HOMELAND by Rafael Julivert
By Rafael Julivert Ramírez. The forthcoming book, The Portable Homeland, analyzes the published work of J. Ré Crivello. Rafael Julivert is an AI Editor (Barcelona, 1967) and an author and popularizer interested in artificial intelligence, philosophy, and the digital humanities. He has written several essays on the social and ethical…
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«When Father’s Chair is Empty» By Nigel Byng
«When Father’s Chair is Empty» By Nigel Byng About this time last year, I watched two families dear to me begin to unravel under the weight of broken marriages. My first thought was for the children: their confusion, anxiety, and quiet self-blame when a father leaves the home. But I…
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To Chat —or Learn Languages by J. Ré Crivello
“The prostitutes on the second deck were desperate, fixing their nails, combing their hair, lying in the sun like lizards. The students came down from first deck, hung around the women, and ended up chatting, fraternizing.” (p. 227, Jorge Amado, The Old Sailors) To chat! This phrase is truly pre-technological.…
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“On the need for repentance” by Ignatius Fernandez
“Death lays his icy hand on kings.” – James Shirley Do dictators repent before they die? The short answer is that we do not know, because we cannot estimate God’s boundless and unconditional mercy. He loves even the dictators. He unlocks the floodgates of grace to save those souls for…
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The Danger of a Frictionless Life by Edward Ortiz
A little over a week ago, I read an article in the Wall Street Journal titled, “Don’t Get Too Comfortable. Your Quality of Life Depends on It.” It was very interesting. Then, a couple of days later, I listened to Wynne Leon’s podcast The Life of Try, where she invited…
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Achieving Balance by J. Ré Crivello
«I went to bed late that night thinking about the witchcraft on the farm. It looked bad, as if it had come from an ancient grave to smash its face against my windowpane. I heard hyenas howling in the distance.» (p. 155, Out of Africa, Isak Dinesen) Achieving balance is…
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Heart-anchored by Susana Cabaço
The world is changing swiftly and intensely as never seen before. It may sometimes feel like you are in the middle of strong tidal currents that want to drag you away from yourself and your path. In these scenarios, you need an anchor, an anchor able to hold you in…
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Experiences: Having Lived an NDE by J Ré Crivello
“It is not necessary to be run over by a truck or suffer a heart attack for an increase in consciousness or spirituality to occur, for materialistic worries to decrease, and for a more loving and peaceful temperament to be acquired.” (p. 73, Brian Weiss, Through Time) Spiritual experiences surround…
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Either way by Susana Cabaço
When you see yourself from a broader, timeless perspective, you know that you’ll persist one way or another. No matter if this or that happens, if you stay or leave, if you have kindred souls around you or are alone, if you live here or there, or even if you…
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The river of life by Susana Cabaço
Life keeps going, one way or another. It has its own system, rhythm, and agenda, and much like a river—an organic, ethereally powered one—it flows as new forms emerge and subside into physicality. That’s the way to keep the influx of life force energy that somehow propels Creation forward. Each…
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Book Review: The Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley by Edward Ortiz
Photo by Ed Ortiz – Book and Hot Puerto Rican Coffee in My Taíno-Inspired Mug I finished reading The Complete Writings of Phillis Wheatley over the weekend, and I really enjoyed reading her poems and learning more about her life. Most importantly, I learned that people often think less of…
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Buds of hope by Susana Cabaço
hen the trees start to bud after the harsh winter conditions, they gently bring about the energy of hope. Hope in warmer and brighter days and in the mildness and potential of life. The buds tell that the worst is behind. The standby of winter, though necessary for natural rebalancing,…
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Pearls of life by Susana Cabaço
Nature quietly utters universal truths through alluring, mystical moments that speak more than words. Depths that, despite their relevance, the majority fail to capture, given their briefness or discreetness and people’s rapid pace and distracted state. Under a soft winter rain, in an apparently lifeless scenario, countless pearls of water…
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Nelle Harper Lee by Luisa Zambrotta
Harper Lee was born on 28 April 1926, and died on 19 February 2016She is best known for writing the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird”, published in 1960, which won the 1961 Pulitzer Prize and was made into an Oscar-winning film starring Gregory Peck The novel is both a coming-of-age…
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