So often I run across people who are either engaged in a process of forging their own identity. Less often with someone living with the fallout of a parent or grandparent having done it. Brando Skyhorse’s mother told him his father was Paul Skyhorse Johnson, a Native American political activist. Really, his father was, like his mother, Mexican. “His mother, Maria, dreaming of a more...
It's hard to be a non-conformist.
Always, these claims that this medieval cup or that is the real Holy Grail. It’s been years since I did my survey of the claims, but here’s one I don’t think I’ve seen before. “New book claims precious goblet in León’s San Isidro basilica is mythical chalice from which Christ sipped at last supper. “Curators were forced to remove a precious cup from...
Learning to think more clearly.
Lots of interesting angles here.