crab apple

A poem about crab apples and self-acceptance, when who you are doesn’t seem to be ‘enough’ in someone else’s eyes.

The Deconstruction Construction Project; Documented

As humans, we are drawn towards what is familiar and safe; we desperately claw at comfort and reject discomfort. But what happens to us when we are completely out of our element?

Love, fairness and the problem of value

This essay is primarily concerned with love as a moral action between two volitions. It is critical of the instrumental view of reality adopted in contemporary conceptions of economics, and utilitarian ethics.

That Fairness is a Quality of Love

Fairness is the quality of love that does not subjectify or objectify but enfolds as the father did his prodigal son. In it is the love that radiates and the love that soothes, the love that comes from the ocean and the sun

Respecting Antigone

This is the commiserating heart that is both rare and common: common as in all men and women possess it; rare as in few bring it to finality. Antigone was able to maintain her original heart and develop her virtue, immortalising herself and her love for her loved ones.

Our purpose

Ninth Heaven exists to bring to light the good things of the world and to inspire the human spirit to the good.

The Ascension, and Will of Heaven

We have a moral prerogative, an instillation within our nature, a call of destiny, that those of us, those of us with ability–or with the impetus to seek to become capable–must thoroughly transform and be the bedrock and foundation of our culture.