You probably know the story about the Tower of Babel: how humankind, speaking only one language, had come together to build a tower that would reach all the way to heaven, and how God stepped in and frustrated their efforts by making them speak a multitude of different languages, thus making communication and cooperation a lot more difficult. Today, everyone is talking about how in the not-so-distant future, thanks to …
poetry
Poem for the Winter Solstice One morning you raise the east window blinds and there is the sun, hunched on the horizon, doing its best to break free, shunting aside a few clouds as it hoists itself in readiness to skate a frigid rink of sky, firing that cloud layer with deceptive warmth, an intense roseate glow. This is winter morning, you say to yourself, but then you realize …
