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Margaret, an Autumn Tale
What if you involuntarily caused the death of someone? How far would you go to repair your mistake? To ease your conscience? To be...
Shirley Le Penne
Nov 4, 201911 min read


What Do You See?
Once upon a time there was a duck. A duck that looked like a rabbit. Or a rabbit that looked like a duck. Either way, here was a duck...
Shirley Le Penne
Oct 21, 20194 min read


Love Life&Death: Klimt and Schiele
Can art dare Death to bare Life? A centennial to the untimely departure of two artists who captured the beauty of human frailty Uriel...
Shirley Le Penne
Dec 31, 201810 min read


Sapienism Celebrates First Anniversary
the longest night, the shortest day, of 2017 – birthing Sapienism, long after its conception

Uriel
Dec 27, 20182 min read


Do we need God to become Human?
We may need God to “hope against hope,” to dream the impossible dream, but such freedom involves a leap of imagination, not of religious...

Uriel
Dec 15, 20184 min read


The Art of Laughter, The Act of Anger
If comedy is “the art of tension diffusion,” as Hannah Gadsby puts it, it’s a different sort of “tension diffusion” she's after – the...

Uriel
Jul 8, 201812 min read


Know Thyself! Or Else What?...
A meandering trip from Gallup, through Norman Rockwell, to LSD – a first part of a duo on Knowing. I hope to soon write the second-part...

Uriel
Jun 2, 20186 min read


Good Grades – Bad Grades
Writer and Illustrator: Keshet Leah Abulof I heard many stories from my friend, and I thought this one is the least scary… Once upon a...

Keshet Abulof
May 27, 20181 min read


Call Me by Your Name- Do You Love and Leave?
LOVE/R this child is still -born. It assumes airs and love and dies. It had no air, before it needed air, and no amount of wind can bring...

maizy.eliash
May 14, 20184 min read


What Does 'Falling in Love' Look Like?
This post is part of Sapienism's online symposium dedicated to Luca Guadagnino's 2017 film, Call Me by Your Name. Each of the four...

Mireille Surowicz
Apr 23, 20186 min read


A Tale of Unexplored Love and Friendship
One of the first questions that came to my mind while watching Call Me by Your Name was - why choosing this title, and more importantly,...
Shirley Le Penne
Apr 21, 20185 min read
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