“Light” Articles

You don’t wait for institutions to become trustworthy, or people to become good, or the city to become clean before deciding whether it’s worth fighting for.

The appeal of the multiverse metaphor in everyday conversation is that it functions as an anaesthetic for regret and makes decisions feel less weighty.

Maybe we have to hit rock bottom in order to see ourselves in the mirror truthfully.

Scott Hutchison didn’t believe in anything beyond this life, but when I talk about light that emanates from his songs, I call it spiritual. He saw a daunting, cold world and set about doing what he could to breathe warmth into it, to strive against his pride to love unselfishly, to rage against the idea that we must accept the earth in its broken state.