Category: Curiosity

  • Seeing Red

    Seeing Red

    I am heartbroken…. I have called Minnesota “home” my entire life. And there is something remarkably strange about knowing your life is occurring in a place and time that will one day be depicted within history books. Some days I wake up to a silence that holds all the promise and possibility of normalcy, and…

  • “The Impossible Dream”

    “The Impossible Dream”

    Do you want to know a fun fact? I have aphantasia. Isn’t that a delightful word? What it means is I have no ability to conjure a mental image. If someone says, “Close your eyes and picture an apple.”  I’ve got nothing but black screen behind my eyes. When reading, people without aphantasia describe seeing…

  • Daily Walking Ever Closer to We

    Daily Walking Ever Closer to We

    I don’t often discuss spirituality, but I almost always want to. There are a lot of topics I can’t make meaningful contributions towards, and while I am not convinced I have much to add in the realm of spirituality, I am intensely drawn to it. It activates a curiosity in me that at times feels…