Bullying: Why it works? How can we fight it?

What a bully does best is to tap straight into these fears and insecurities. Bullies sense these weaknesses, our vulnerabilities, and attack

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...

I See You

(or: The Mind's I-I) A slightly elaborated comment to Shirley's What Do You See?, a very fine illustration of freedom (choice) and...

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...

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...

Sapienism Celebrates First Anniversary

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...