by Julie Mathison | Sep 10, 2020 | Ideas, Lifestyle, Society, Spirituality, Uncategorized
I wake up at 2:34 a.m., and my chest feels tight. Glowing numbers from the display clock splay across the ceiling, and I turn over, determined to sleep, but there’s a smell in the air. It’s that campfire smell, nice and woodsy, only it’s in my bedroom, and...
by Julie Mathison | Aug 7, 2020 | Ideas, Society
I have rewritten this post three times. Originally, it was entitled “Rehumanizing Karen.” I ran it by my smart, Gen Z, teen-aged kids and found that it said things I did not wish to say, so I revised it, made it more nuanced, and peppered it...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 18, 2020 | Ideas, Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Spirituality
What is it to hold to things you cannot see, touch, taste or feel? To be governed by principles no legislation can decree but the whisperings of your own heart, your instincts, your faith — ineffable as it is? One cannot say anything truly new about...
by Julie Mathison | Jul 11, 2020 | Ideas, Society, Spirituality
I was born in 1969. On July 20th, when I am eight days old, Neil Armstrong becomes the first human being to set foot on the moon. He manually pilots the Eagle past strewn boulders, amid the sounding of alarms, to land in the Sea of Tranquility with 30...
by Julie Mathison | Jun 1, 2020 | Ideas, Literature, Nineteenth Century Literature, Spirituality
The irony is not lost on me. I have set about to blog, in the digital sphere, on all things analog — analog values, lenses, activities, objects, attitudes and ways of being. The very technology which makes my venture possible derives from principles alien to my...
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