akarra's Stuff

If you've wondered what the fuss is about poetry, this trail is for you. A few very short poems are featured here, with some brief commentary highlighting key lines. Since this is not in-depth, the last link in the collection is a resource for coming up with defensible interpretations of poems.

Shannon Doubleday's photography can be a bit esoteric, and her site isn't the easiest to navigate despite its boldness.

I feel her work is very worthwhile. She's one of the few people I know trying to do something genuinely "new," and I've learned a lot by keeping up with her.

Illustrator, iconographer and graphic designer Paul Drozdowski has produced some incredible work. This trail takes you through a few of his creations, taking time to elaborate on the full significance of what you're seeing.

This is a brief tour of some recent poems and songs that puts forward a thesis: perhaps all of our poetic musings nowadays have a very particular vision of what is love, what is politics. In seeing a thematic convergence between what hearkens to classical knowledge and what is meant for popular consumption, I wonder whether we are seeing a good or bad thing generally speaking.

A very brief look at what makes Catholicism unique and its significance culturally.

This does assume prior knowledge of Christianity. You need to know that Christians do believe in a Triune God of Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Creation was Redeemed after Man fell by the Son, the Word of God who presided over Creation. The Spirit's coming was precipitated after the Son was killed by us, resurrected by God and ascended into heaven, so that faith in Providence would triumph over knowledge of the Fall.

If you know the basic story but only know of Catholicism through "The DaVinci Code," this is for you.