Photos taken for Kimberly Belcher’s upcoming presentation at the American Academy of Religion, “Sacred Space, Festal Time, and the Construction of Identity at Mar Thoma Diocese in Chicago.”
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Photos taken for Kimberly Belcher’s upcoming presentation at the American Academy of Religion, “Sacred Space, Festal Time, and the Construction of Identity at Mar Thoma Diocese in Chicago.”
My photo was in the paper, featured in an article about bike commuting in Chicago. I was part of the queue lined up outside Working Bikes, the local used-bike co-op, last Wednesday.
Except I’m the guy sitting on the ground, stuffing my face with White Castle.
Oh well.
you know me, or you think you do
you just don’t seem to see
i’ve been waiting all this time to be
something i can’t define
so let’s cause a scene
clap our hands and stomp our feet
or something, yeah something
i just gotta get myself over me
when i think about how much changed in the last three years
all the growing, the settling, the softening, the inescapable pull of creeping maturity
to where even the most resistant among us have had our sharp, unruly edges rounded
the merits of what we’ve gained cannot be questioned or discounted
but it’s hard not to feel a little [...]