catapult magazine

Items tagged identity

• I've become my mother

  A reflection on the super-humans we know as our parents.

• Ten dichotomies I don’t fit into

  A list of categories that can’t confine the author…to the dismay of those around him.

• Grant’s recommendations 1.25.08

  From the life and influence of Bob Dylan chronicled in I’m Not There to Mike Judge’s take on the future of the U.S. in Idiocracy.

• Cooking chicken wat

  How international dishes can help us explore the world and acknowledge our limitations.

• The color of cuisine

  A reflection on the way oppression has shaped U.S. diets.

• The cultural cook

  On exploring culture through cookbooks.

• On becoming an “artist,” pied beauty and art in community

  A talk and slide show from the author's recent photography exhibit.
  

• We’re not here

  A reflection on I’m Not There, a new film about Bob Dylan.

• Doing monasticism

  On coming face to face with one’s self in a monastery.

• Kept objects

  A series of very short essays on meaningful things people have seen fit to keep around.

• The company we keep

  Moving from anti-matter schizophrenia to an appropriate delight in things.

• Defective connections

  Everyday things can surround us with the stories of our lives.

• We owe how much?

  Deep remembering may or may not depend on the things we actually keep.

• Piled up

  How our housekeeping tendencies can shape our identities in relation to others.

• Feels like home

  How art became a way to feel at home in many different homes.

• Icons and alphabets

  An image on the wall tells several stories simultaneously.

• Superman: “Man of Steel” or “Stalin”?

  A review of Steven T. Seagle’s graphic novel It’s a Bird.

• A self in comparison

  Reflections on ambition, identity, fame, fortune and family.

• Interior formation

  What is the effective difference between a cathedral and an auditorium?  A sparse Protestant dais and Orthodox iconography?

• A song in my home

  How making a first home can be a re-discovery of self.

• BE HERE NOW (and later, too)

  Reflecting on a year-long experiment in time off.

• Out of the closet, into the forest

  Reflection on a change in thinking that has had relational consequences.

• Tale of two children

  What folk tales and the biblical narrative have to offer about the process of growing up.

• On being a loser at 30

  An older self and a younger self in dialogue about (dis)contentment.

• Identity and vocation

  On the search for purpose, via the story of playwright Horton Foote.

• These things remain

  Reflections on the occasion of a not-so-pivotal birthday.

• Eyes to see

  Reflections on the inadequacy of colorblindness from an anti-racism community organizer.

• Shades of beige and brown and tan

  Figuring out how to examine categories as a means of dismantling prejudice.

• On his brownness

  How can those whose genes embody an intersection of ethnicities uniquely contribute to understanding and reconciliation?

• A glimpse overseas

  A report on race relations in Russia.