
Good Bones, by Maggie Smith [Annotated Readings]
“Life is short, though I keep this from my children…”
Hagoth favors essays that can trace their lineage back to Michel de Montaigne; whether narrative, analytical, or devotional, these essays lean ruminative, conversational, meandering, impressionistic, and are reluctant to wax didactic. But that doesn’t mean you won’t find the occasional poem or piece of fiction here as well.

“Life is short, though I keep this from my children…”

If these Dune flicks had come out 20-odd years ago–back when I first binge-read the Frank Herbert novels in High School–I would’ve been so pumped

Either way she was singing Gloria.


For your Holy Wednesday and Maundy Thursday.

For Palm Sunday and Holy Week: It was with great daring that the Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki scored “St. Luke Passion” in 1966…
It’s already been 10 years since Pink Floyd’s last original song…

On the subversive power of welcoming Spring.

French theorist Renée Girard, in his influential 1972 study Violence and the Sacred, argued that the origins of human religion are rooted in the ever-present threat of all-consuming, retributive violence…

One death is murder; a million deaths is a statistic.
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