People in A Story: How Book Characters Teach Us to Love Well
“I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more […]
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Little Tree: An Ode to A Christmas Tree
[little tree] BY E. E. CUMMINGS little tree little silent Christmas tree you are so little you are more like a flower who found you in the green forest and were […]
The Giver: Choosing to Live In Color
“Sometimes I wish they’d ask for my wisdom more often–there are so many things I could tell them; things I wish they would change. But they don’t want change. Life […]
Mothman and Mad Anne: Local Legends of Point Pleasant, WV
Local Legends: Mothman Last week, my brother and I went to visit Point Pleasant, WV with a few friends. Our goal was to visit the home of Mothman, one of […]
November Reading Prompt: Read an Opposite Worldview
“The only effect I ardently long to produce by my writings, is that those who read them should be better able to imagine and to feel the pains and joys […]
Learning to Empathize with Hedda Gabler
“It’s a liberation to know that an act of spontaneous courage is yet possible in this world. An act that has something of unconditional beauty.”― Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler Reading a play […]
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: The Spirit of Appalachian Music
“We don’t charge for tickets, because sometimes hungry people need music the most.” (The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, pp. 365) One of my favorite aspects of Suzanne Collins new […]
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes: When Society Trades Truth for Lies
“I think there’s a natural goodness built into human beings. You know when you’ve stepped across the line into evil, and it’s your life’s challenge to try and stay on […]