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A Prayer Overheard
This prayer was said long enough ago that I don’t mind posting about it here. I was in—it’s safe to say—a period of incredible spiritual desolation. A friend of mine, who I hadn’t seen in years, messaged me asking me to pray for her. I won’t say what for, but she was having a very…
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our great shame
Especially now that it’s gotten warmer, I have (on one or two occasions) found myself craving ice cream in the middle of the night. The great thing about Toronto is that there is never a time when you are completely without the possibility of ice cream, so the last time I found myself in this…
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Kanada
Recently, I had the privilege of seeing the Auschwitz exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. For those near Toronto, I would highly suggest going to see it, although it’s not especially pleasant, nor should it be! There were a lot of things—horrible, damnable things—that stuck with me, but the strangest, which I never would have…
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the timeless bard
My mum and I have a tradition where we’ll go down to Stratford (Ontario) two or three times a year to watch Shakespeare in the theatre. We’ve seen some great ones: Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and (a wonderful parody of Shakespeare) Something Rotten. Personally, I’ve always loved Shakespeare’s tragedies the best, but I’ve come…
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a tale of dual belonging
Finding religion in adulthood, when you weren’t raised with anything in particular, is a strange experience. I haven’t met many people like that. It seems most stories are about people leaving religion, not finding it. Moreover, most of the people who have a religion were raised with it, and there wasn’t the experience of wrestling…
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ifs and the art of gaming
Celeste has quickly become one of my favourite platform games of all time. In case you don’t know, “platformers” are games, like Super Mario, where you’re on a 2D plane, generally doing lots of jumping and falling. Celeste has a lot of that, actually, since the premise is that you, Madeline, are determined to climb…
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get real
Rick and Morty is one of my favourite shows—definitely in the top-three—and this is why. It’s like Doctor Who on crack—I love it! Amidst the ridiculousness and the sci-fi level grossness of it all (not to mention the adult humour), it also succeeds in grappling with some interesting ideas. Case in point is this soliloquy…
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no-scoping narratives 🎯
I’m a big fan of video essays. They’re my podcasts, if I’m honest—a soundtrack to my day. And I saw a few in my recommended the other day that were about Halo. You know, the game? It was one of my favourites growing up. I had to play a bootlegged copy on my PC—no Xbox…
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samsara and the shining
This has been a long time coming…. The Shining is my favourite horror movie of all-time. Having said that, when I first saw the film, I was pretty confused, especially with the ending. And I did what anyone of my generation would do: I googled responses, reading other people’s interpretations, and trying to think of…
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