Gossip reminds us that to be human is to be messy. Perhaps that is why we love it so. A neighbor's affair or a coworker's sudden departure can quickly become a modern-day Greek myth. There is a particular kind of…
A book found me in a used bookstore recently. I was scanning the history section looking for anything by Jill Lepore, but then a thick paperback with the stars and stripes on the spine caught my eye. It had the…
For over 2,000 years, ancient Greek people believed in Bugonia: the belief that bees could spontaneously generate from the decaying carcass of a bull. The "sweetness" of life was linked to the death of the bull's brute force. Taurus represents…
The Tower of Babel story shows people building a tower to remain centralized, to speak a common language, to reach heaven. God was ticked off at their hubris and put a stop to this endeavor by turning their single language…
Because we seem to be in a "things will get worse before they get better" time in the collective, we have an opportunity to do even more civic depth work as "psychological citizens." James Hillman describes a psychological citizen as…