catapult magazine

Items tagged perfection

• The perfect body

  On the dynamics of accepting one’s own body and teaching a teen-aged daughter to do the same.

• Coming to consciousness

  How adults and children can walk together on the journey toward discovering grace and self.

• Going to the chapel

  On doing things differently, without failing to speak the language of tradition.

• Fact vs. truth

  A childhood of gathering evidence gives way to an adulthood of storytelling.

• The lie of perfection

  On giving politicians permission to tell the truth.

• Desecrating the asterisk?

  Some of the story behind *cino's efforts to win a $50,000 grant from Pepsi.

• Dark bird ascending

  A review of the film Black Swan, featuring Natalie Portman as a professional ballerina.

• With a spring in my step and a mop in my hand

  Of sanity and hospitality in a home that's dirty enough to be happy.

• Coming to terms

  Wrestling with the place of mental illness in the Christian life.

• Up off the floor

  A pastor reflects on the fitting elusiveness of perfection.

• Border line

  Pondering government and inequality in Detroit.

• (Dis)organization's origins

  A disorganized collector reflects on human and divine nature.

• The imperfect life

  On learning to open the windows again.

• Ten lies artists tell themselves

  An art director and illustrator speaks to fellow artists from experience.

• Ten ways to savor your time in 2013

  Advice from a pastor, writer and mother of three.

• Therefore, put on the dress of joy

  A case for delight in dressing ourselves.

• Old tree, new tree

  How tightly should we hold traditions when circumstances change?

• Emotional wreck

  Your kids were supposed to have perfect parents.  You were supposed to have perfect kids.  You’re all plain out of luck.