I stumbled upon a very useful post over on Aedicula Antinoi that helped answer (or stir further) some questions I hadn't been aware I was striving towards. The post helped me affirm that - dude, I'm alive, I'm engaged in spiritual and religious pursuits, I've got friends and lovers; that's all pretty amazing. Perhaps that's a strange thing to get out of the article in question, but, ultimately, my life doesn't have to be the most important thing ever, I don't need to be a revolutionary, to be … [Read more...]

Fair warning - this is all going to be very rambly and meandering, a collection of my thoughts concerning this poem as well as anything my mind deems relevant. Which...my mind leaps to interesting places, so they may only be relevant to me. Though I enjoyed the poem in its entirety (which is saying something since I still have high school-esque distaste for epic poetry, though perhaps I simply needed to be exposed to a story I could enjoy), two of the parts that stood out to me were … [Read more...]