Category: Culture & Society

topographia

A bridge to the Anima Mundi—the World Soul. Beyond the systems and headlines of modern life, we explore the deeper patterns that shape our shared experience. From the traditions that ground us to the technologies that connect us, we listen for the heartbeat of the collective, seeking to understand our culture and find a more meaningful way to live within it.

  • Middle-Aged Women

    Middle-Aged Women

    Middle-aged women care about other women: little girls, young women, thirty-somethings who know it all, forty-somethings who doubt it all, other middle-aged women who carry it all, and grannies who have endured it all.

  • 15 Minute Relationships

    15 Minute Relationships

    I doubt that even Warhol would have predicted the notoriety offered by social media, where anyone with a smartphone can be famous, humans reduced to mere bytes, frozen like embryos for later revivification.

  • The Disease of Greed

    The Disease of Greed

    “The love of possessions is a disease in them […] If America had been twice the size it is, there still would not have been enough.” Chief Sitting Bull, 1877.

  • Brown Jesus

    Brown Jesus

    Since that day when games at Nana’s transmogrified into lessons in truth and atonement, there are more historically accurate depictions of Jesus in my home, even if the Christian church has yet to change theirs.

  • In Search of Salted Shrimp

    In Search of Salted Shrimp

    I’m glad I can have an experience of being an outsider, because it’s humbling and hilarious, and one has to be bold to find what one needs in the place where one’s own culture is not king.

  • What Not to Wear

    What Not to Wear

    After all this time, a pattern has emerged, and out of that pattern, a truth: We dress the way we want other people to treat us.

  • Shadow

    Shadow

    This past weekend I had the privilege of witnessing a courageous confrontation. Beforehand, no one had mustered the courage to say anything. Finally, though, one of us decided to confront the situation.

  • Freedom

    Freedom

    I remembered my own childhood, the hours spent outside in trees, playing in the shade of my grandmother’s huge, gnarled Crape Myrtle, reading on the porch swing,

  • Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night

    During medieval times, Twelfth Night was the biggest celebration of the year. It was a night for merrymaking and revelry.

  • Characteristics of the Gifted

    Characteristics of the Gifted

    Gifted people share certain characteristics that can make adaptation difficult when adapting means thinking, acting, or feeling within normal limits.