by T. Bloom There isn’t much to say about Alice Clark that hasn’t been said elsewhere already, but mostly that’s because there just isn’t much to say. Even less was known when I first happened across her music back in 2009. Nowadays she has a Wikipedia page containing a few scant details about her personal life. But even these are enigmatic — a suggestion that she grew up in Bed-Stuy, and this quote from album collaborator Billy Vera:

This is the fifth part of our series examining the image of water in the Bible. Over the next months, we’ll be looking at these verses to follow the image of water as it flows from Genesis to Revelation. This time we’re looking into the depths… at the “that’s no whale” sea monsters that swarm in the abyss. Careful readers of Genesis 1 will notice God makes two kinds of things in the sea on the fifth day: “giant sea creatures” (as the ESV, NIV, and NASB put it) and everything else.

I did it. It took me almost an hour to figure out how to do it (Meta sure doesn’t make it easy to divorce yourself from its dystopian maze), but I did it. I deactivated my personal Facebook and my personal Instagram account. I also put an ‘away message’ on Born of Wonder’s Instagram and have no plans to sign back in. I first created an Instagram in 2012. It was 2009 the first time I signed onto Facebook.

Hey AZ... I've truly & thoroughly enjoy you're newer project, 'Andrew Zimmern Wild Outdoor Kitchen'... I've watched every episode & have saved all the recipes... I live in Brewtown, Wisconsin, and my best friend's Dad, was executive officer's chef in the military & an expert marksman. They had 180-acres of hunting grounds, w/ 5 lakes & a nice cabin in Spooner Wisconsin. I spent all my whole summers there. He engraved the value of nature, preserving it & living-off it as well.

This story fascinates me. We cannot and will never know, obviously, all of what occurred on October 7th. But it is becoming ever clearer that 'friendly fire' is a large part of the equation. More fascinating to me, though, is how quickly the mainstream Western narratives surrounding this day - the history leading up to it, the events of the day itself and the days since - have been challenged and begun to crumble, almost in real time.