Category: Reflections

Coming Out to Christ

I am sixteen years old and sitting in a church pew and I am committing an act of defiance.

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There Is No There Here, On The Presidential Race From an Uninformed Perspective

“I used to be a political junkie. Then 2016 happened, and I realized that that life was not for me.”

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Persimmons of another tree: a transfem’s song of love and rejuvenation

“When I say room I mean this space that contains me. / When I say this space that contains me I mean I fill this space. / When I say I fill this space I mean this space is my body.”

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Ruins of Our Time

Conteplating human extinction

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A Day, and a Shura, in Zaywalat hawza

If you haven’t seen _The Hurt Locker_ yet, don’t. Watch _Groundhog Day_ instead; it’s much better, and it will also give you a far better sense of what the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are like. That’s not an original … Read More

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On the Aesthetic Life

The ugly process of forcing beauty.

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Peter Taylor ’22 Reflection

“I had made a positive impact on someone else; I had connected through my words to another mind, another person.”

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Owing

Wherein a Nass writer reflects on a complex relationship to the sport of volleyball.

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Lessons From a Borrowed Home

Reflecting on the protests in Hong Kong.

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Now and Then, Here and There

My grandfather bore a striking resemblance to Benito Mussolini in physique and temperament.

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Lindner Park

A reflection on yard signs, people-watching, and living in a swing state during the 2020 election.

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Ghosts of Berggasse 19

“You are buzzed in after a moment, as if you are entering a doctor’s office, as if you are a patient, as if the Freud, whose eyes stare out from the tiers of brochures in the museum’s front room, will tell you in due time what your dreams mean.”

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