I waited three months to eat a Krispy Kreme. I mean I waited. Every week or so, I take the train to Penn Station, quickly zigzagging through crowds. And every time I have the same internal monologue — Don’t stop at the Krispy Kreme. Don’t give yourself diabetes. Seriously, you might as well inject Elmer’s glue straight into your heart. But then I saw the store, bright and beautiful and […]
Charles Edwards | Ghost
Chrissy sat on the bed and held the little plastic baggie with the white powder in it and an illustration of the stereotypical ghost in a white sheet printed on one side of the baggie. She let out a sigh upon realizing what this was. There was a history of drug use in her family. Her father had drank himself to an early death. Her mother had used barbiturates – […]
Tulsi Gabbard | My spiritual path
I was raised in a multi-faith family studying both the Christian and Hindu scriptures. We observed Christmas and Janmastami (the birth of Jesus and the birth of Krishna). So my two primary sources of inspiration, spiritual comfort, and illumination come from the New Testament, and the Bhagavad Gita (the song of God), the ancient Hindu scripture spoken over 5000 years ago. I realized that the essence of these two great […]
Invisible people | Addressing homelessness
This issue of The MOON explores homelessness—the condition shared by growing numbers of men and women who live on the streets and under the bridges of cities in the U.S. and around the world. They are “invisible” because we look away. We don’t know what to do about their situation. We’re overwhelmed by the enormity of all they must need. The issue was inspired by the website Invisible People, which […]
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