Commentary

Though not invited to participate in this exceptionally fictional collaboration, I see a huge problem hindering any possible chance of success and yet, have a simple solution that will almost certainly guarantee attainment of their goal.

An easy out is to say that Buddha and his teachings were not patriarchal but Buddhist institutions were and many still are. But this is too simple.

My dependence has built up over many years, but my recent recognition and withdrawal from this drug feels like I have just cut off an arm. This addiction is Christian music.

"Bare" builds on the Shakespearian framework of the forbidden love, and explores the seven deadly sins, as they occur in a private Catholic high school. The limited dialog is stark and raw (mirroring conversations I’ve overheard in Spokane public school hallways – where no words or topics appear to be taboo), while the lyrics and music pull emotions along a full continuum.

I am not my body. My body and I are one and the same. I do not like to consider myself an assemblage of parts. And yet, if I am, and cannot avoid the consideration of that fact—that I am an assemblage of parts—any so-called ‘spirituality of the body’ would have to modulate in that modular way.

Sometimes I wonder if God hides our sinfulness from each other so we can stand to be around one another