Time and Tide and Friendships

Baz Luhrmann once said about friendships, “Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle because the older you get, the more you’ll need the people you knew when you were young.”

I’ve been thinking alot lately about relationships and how they’re affected by time and distance. The interwebs provide us with so much [...]

Speaker for the Dead

At the end of his brilliant novel, Ender’s Game, the author Orson Scott Card develops the idea of a Speaker for the Dead.

“When their loved ones died, a believer would arise beside the grave to be the Speaker for the Dead, and say what the dead person would have said, but with full candor, [...]