What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman in the midst of this world, where each person is clinging to his piece of debris? What's the proper salutation between people as they pass each other in this flood?

Depression

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Injury

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Prayer

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

Work

Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. In what we call art, it's one of the most desirable characteristics of a piece of work.