Sworn beneath the old gods (and new).
Carried like iron under the cloak.
Personal writing on faith, family, politics, and life. Discussion is welcome. Debate is not the purpose.
Faith · 2025-04-29
Thor is often reduced to the moment of impact. Hammer raised. Giant struck. Thunder answering the blow. The image is not wrong, but it is too convenient. It lets protection become a single dramatic act instead of the continuous labor that makes human life possible in the first place. [more]
Faith · 2023-08-22
Blood can make a claim. It cannot make a lie true. That is where a great deal of family, tribe, community, and religious talk begins to fail. Loyalty is a real obligation. It is not a decorative word for liking people who make life easy. [more]
Faith · 2022-02-08
A guest changes the room before he says a word. The chair moves. Food is counted differently. The stove, the table, the good cup, the spare blanket, the tone of the conversation, the path to the bathroom, the volume of the house after dark: all of it adjusts around the fact that someone has crossed from outside to inside. [more]
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