Family follies

When Jesus said, “Call no man on earth your father,” he was not referring to Catholics. He was calling us on our cultural adhesions, pointing to humanity’s treacly devotion to a biological concept.

Death and dying

Death is the falling away of everything we don’t need—our traditions, beliefs, habits, hopes, memories, worries, fears, resentments, five-year plans, medications, opinions, cultural associations, club memberships, loyalties, animosities, calculations, the voice in the head that interprets, judges, discriminates, rejects, invites and analyzes.

This falling away is already happening—as I write this, as you read it.