Categoría: essay
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On Work by Dominik Slusarczyk
Most people work. And work is the worst thing imaginable. Work is awful. The majority of people get up at seven so they can be at work by nine o’clock. Add commuting, and people are at work for ten hours a day. And that is only if they don’t have…
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Only gain by Susana Cabaço
The soul loses nothing in worldly loss; it always gains, whether the experience is humanly perceived as a loss or a gain. Given that the soul comes here to practically perceive the physical reality and uncover its own potential, all occurrences are a plus for its spiritual endeavor, even when…
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The «Art» of Having No Art: Yoko Ono.
Yoko Ono: The Worst Artist in the History of Art There are artists whose work challenges us, artists who force us to reconsider what art can be. And then there are artists whose work seems to challenge the very idea that art should require talent, craft, imagination or even execution.…
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Travel: A Bowl of Rice by J. Ré Crivello
The bowl of rice can be white or take on the color of paella. It might be delivered to your table on a weekday as a side dish, or it might be served with onions fried in oil. Nothing will change if you give that smile you gave the waiter,…
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On Time by Dominik Slusarczyk
The only you who exists is the you you are right now. The you you were yesterday died and is now gone. That you will never exist again. It is a defining characteristic of moving through time that you change over time. The you of the future does not exist…
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EYES & LIES by Mike Steeden
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343-25 – English poet and writerAs to today, my story is a tad more rude than the old days…so they say The affluent looking old man who only had one eye and a face like an orange turnip told lies day and night. As to his friends, he…
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“Three Wishes” by Nolcha Fox
A homeless woman was picking through garbage on a freezing, blizzardy Christmas Eve. Her bent back screamed, and the wind blew through her entire body. A lost Santa stumbled over the woman. “So sorry! Did I hurt you?” The woman cried in surprise and pain. “There, there,” he said, patting…
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Marriage Is a Partnership, Not a Competition by Edward Ortiz
I recently read an article in The Economist that discusses, among other things, how men suffer serious psychological distress when their wives earn more than they do or become the primary breadwinner in the household. The article specifically states: “Men whose wives and partners are the primary earners are roughly…
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You versus you only by Susana Cabaço
The human you ends up being molded through the ups and downs, backs and forths, and rounds and rounds of life. You are no longer the same after certain life experiences. But if you were able to learn, grow, and become a better person instead of a bitter or resented…
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Sacred Town —02: Fictions and Legacies by J. Ré Crivello
“Formed thus in ranks, a hare happened to pass among them, and scarcely had they seen it when they ran after it; and seeing them agitated and all chasing after one, Darius asked what this commotion of the enemy was about” (p. 163, Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard Kapuściński) “And that…
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I have a question 44? by Julie Sheppard
I doubt that there has ever been a person who has lived a problem free life. We’ve been hurt by things or people in our lives. Financial problems, health problems, and problems in our relationships are probably on the list of troubles we’ve faced. In the book of James 1:2-4…
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The Book of Don. A Sacred Chronicle of the Trump Era by T.B. Calder by Olga Nuñez
Hi, all: The Book of Don. A Sacred Chronicle of the Trump Era by T.B. Calder Description He descended from the tower, and America called it politics. The Book of Don is a sharp, mock-Biblical satire of Donald Trump, American politics, celebrity culture, media obsession, and the national appetite for spectacle.…
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Cause of Death written November 12, 2011 by julie Sheppard
A blessing has come from having the condensation line bust in my ceiling. Yes the mess that came from water pouring from my ceiling into my living room created a big mess. Which also meant that there were a lot of things I had to temporarily move, and the mess…
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Digital Brain Queries — 01: God by J. Ré Crivello
Note: Queries are made to the AI built on 5,000 published articles by J. Ré. You can ask at this link: https://cerebrojuanrecrivello.netlify.app/#1_WIKI%2FHome.md The question of God runs through the work of Juan Re Crivello more as an open wound than as a resolved dogma. A reader of the Bible since…
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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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