The Tia Sophia's storefront A few weeks ago, my mother and I stood waiting in line outside Tia Sophia’s, a favorite breakfast spot in our hometown of Santa Fe, New Mexico. With several other New Mexican places in town, Tia’s is family owned and is a popular destination for both tourists and locals. Bursting forth… Continue reading Cultural erosion and the multiverse in which it lives
Author: JHB
Boredom
It wasn't long ago that I realized I don't need to impress anyone, And there is nowhere to go. * Boredom is the impediment to these realizations. * All my life it had been backgrounding my experience, An amalgam of disgust, and anger, And underneath it all, A sadness which wished to ask, "Is there… Continue reading Boredom
Love as a certain kind of flame
I miss when relationships meant nothing, And in that nothingness, Could mean the world. * The artist, the bureaucrat, the hippy… To each I gave my heart entire, Willy nilly, Blissfully indifferent to the consequences. * As these worlds shattered, And as my heart grew worn, My head entered the picture, Offering diagnoses as to… Continue reading Love as a certain kind of flame
Masculinity, fascism, and the green revolution
What happened in Germany in the 1930s can be viewed through a purely economic lens. Germany had lost the first World War, been economically hamstrung by the Treaty of Versailles, and famously, inflation was so rampant that children needed to truck dollar bills in a wheelbarrow to purchase a loaf of bread. When Adolf Hitler… Continue reading Masculinity, fascism, and the green revolution
The Russian doll schema that is inner child work
In inner child work, the therapeutic subject visits and comforts earlier versions of themselves at unique and pivotal stress points. At each of these points, the subject gives to their earlier self the care and understanding they did not receive at the time, a process which gradually quells latent feelings such as anxiety, anger, confusion,… Continue reading The Russian doll schema that is inner child work
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 