TRANSFORMATIONS
It’s an art. It’s a science. It’s an evolutionary mindfuck.
Everybody loves the idea of a caterpillar. The nearly rabid fervor over these unremarkable, oozing worms is not about who they are, of course, but who they will become. With just a two-week spa retreat and silk wrap, this plump and ordinary slug reemerges as a magnificent flying spectacle of…
JOBS OUTLOOK
Or the money
Back when everyone hunted and gathered for a living, no one worked for the money, or the weekend, because neither existed. The point of every job was to make other people’s lives better. Workers earned not only a just living but, more importantly, secure inclusion in the power and safety…
LOSS
And why I’m raising the dead
When I was twenty-one, my mom was murdered. Yep, this is a hell of an opening line, and probably even more so for me since I don’t talk about it a lot. At least, I haven’t so far. But I want to change that.
After I got that devastating phone…
THE SEARCH FOR MEANING
We don’t know why we're here or where, exactly, here even is. But that’s okay.
As if it wasn’t enough that we have to deal with the uncomfortable awareness of our own mortality, we’re also damned to reckon with this preposterously inexplicable, physics-and-mind-bending universe, brazenly stretching to infinity in all directions.
I’d be delighted to attribute the whole thing to an organized and purposeful God…
COMIC THERAPY
And sicker and tired-er of trying to prove that I am
I’ve spent most of my life trying to prove that I’m worthwhile. And the rest of it asleep.
I don’t know why it’s always been like this. …
CONNECTION COMICS
So why does everyone keep saying we do?
We literally come into the world tethered to another person. Usually, there are doctors, nurses, fathers, doulas, and other assorted bystanders there too.
And when we die, there are frequently people there as well, sometimes holding our hand as we pass.
Still, my mom used to repeatedly chant the mantra…
KEEPING IT REAL
OK?
My life has been filled with emotional struggles. So have a lot of people’s. Life is hard. Yet we smile and insist we’re fine.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not attacking the common courtesy of not dumping a cartload of crap-packed baggage on the first moment of an encounter. …
CONNECTION COMICS
And it never will
Looking out for “number one,” is the default directive of the plant and animal kingdoms. So it’s not a shock that this knee-jerk reflex turns up in people. But, as Richard Dawkins insightfully pointed out, “number one” doesn’t refer to individuals, but to genes.
In a surprisingly large number of…
CREATION COMICS
Obviously for rehabilitation. Or possibly indentured servitude.
One of the giant questions we all face is why we’re here. This is no trivial matter since the ultimate purpose of life gives us our sense of direction, and an inaccurate answer can lead us far astray.
Some of us get a bye on the question with the ready-made…
David Milgrim
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