Meg Giordano

philosophical and theological reflection on human flourishing

“This is what poets are paid for… look at clouds,

watch chipmunks …

I mean, someone has to keep an eye on these things.”

Billy Collins, United States Poet Laureate 2001-2003 (MasterClass, 2019)

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Recent posts:

  • Gratitude in Thomas Aquinas

    Gratitude in Thomas Aquinas

    Here is the chapter I contributed to Wipf and Stock’s collection of essays Gestures of Grace.

  • A Dark Tale

    A Dark Tale

    Here is a short story. It’s a bit weird, but I hope you like it. Maybe it will even give you a shiver or two. Maybe.

  • An ode to ‘you’: the power of the second-person pronoun

    An ode to ‘you’: the power of the second-person pronoun

    ‘You’ is quite a marvelous word. It indicates an interconnected set of individual experiences that each stand on their own, and yet which are different for having crossed paths.