Catastrophe Is Next to Godliness
A poem for Sunday
Lord, I confess I want the clarity of catastrophe but not the catastrophe. Like everyone else, I want a storm I I want an excuse to change my life.
Hayao Miyazaki’s Anti-war Fantasia
Once, in a windowless conference room, I got into an argument with a minor Japanese-government official about Hayao Miyazaki. This was in 2017, three years after the director had announced his latest retirement from filmmaking. His final project was
