Category Archives: Spirituality
Autumn: The Introverted Season
Autumn is here. I prefer autumn to “fall,” though I’m not sure why. Perhaps because as a word autumn seems more spiritual. More artistic. Even more introverted. Naturally a word cannot be introverted. That doesn’t however, stop me or any one of you from feeling certain human qualities emanate from certain words. Words evoke different things …
Repost: My 9/11 Story
On the tenth anniversary of 9/11, I wrote a detailed account, for the first time, of my own experience of that day. Since then, I have reposted that account on the anniversary, and allowed it to stand as my definitive response to those events. I try not to begrudge anybody of their personal methods of …
An Open Letter to a Thoughtful Man
For the purposes of this open letter, the subject will be adressed as Mr. Kimble. -Ty Dear Mr. Kimble, I have one memory of you, but it is one of the most important memories of anything that I have in life. You were a coworker of my father’s when he died. A short time …
An Open Letter to My First (And Worst) Bully
For the purposes of this open letter, the addressee will be referred to as 45217. A subsequent person will be referred to as Jake. -Ty Dear 45217, One of the least surprising things I ever learned in my life some years ago was that you ended up in prison. Robbery, was it? I don’t remember exact details, but I …
I KNOW Memorial Day Is Not National Barbecue Day
I find myself each year resenting the reminders that are all over the internet that Memorial Day is “not National Barbecue Day”. It’s condescending. I don’t need reminded of what today is. I’m opposed to the mutually exclusive tone of those reminders. Are we incapable of having a barbecue and respecting the fallen at the same time? …
Ty Unglebower 