I am currently teaching Romeo and Juliet to 9th graders, and recently we read and discussed act 1, scene 5, in which the eponymous characters meet for the first time. During this meeting, Romeo delivers the following speech, one so beautiful and pure as to bring a tear to my eye: O, she doth teach… Continue reading Love at first sight in Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet”
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Dialogue on spiritual friendship (with Kyle Hilding)
Jackson: Hey, brother! So, we agreed we were going to have a dialogue around the importance of friendship to the spiritual journey. We agreed we were going to host this dialogue via email, to give each of us ample time to reflect on our answers. To start off, maybe you can write a bit about… Continue reading Dialogue on spiritual friendship (with Kyle Hilding)
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
The dream-visitation
Twice in my life I have had the following dream: It is the final evening of my senior year of college, and I am on campus. The following morning, I will graduate and then leave campus for good. That evening, I meet and sleep with a female student. She is one year younger than I… Continue reading The dream-visitation
What Dreams May Come and the acquiescence that is true love
At face value, Richard Matheson’s What Dreams May Come embeds a romantic tale of soul mates at first rent apart, then rejoined. This occurs because one of the souls, Chris, is killed in a car accident and enters the afterlife—a fact which for the principal third of the novel he refuses to believe. Then, Chris’s… Continue reading What Dreams May Come and the acquiescence that is true love
Jackson Holzberg Buckley 