Tag: Life

• I Was Drowning Until I Wasn’t

  Last weekend I had a terrifying experience with panic and water. I decided to swim a good distance out into the ocean where I thought there was a sandbar. I saw 4 kids pretty far out and I assumed they were standing on a sandbar. They were coming back in and I was swimming out…

  The Deconstructed

  October 2, 2022

  Anxiety, Breathe, Death, Drowning, Hope, Life, Ocean, Panic, swim, Water

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• Tony

  My dad Anthony (Tony) Louis Passaro Jr. was born on August 23, 1950 over a month premature. He was the only child of my grandmother Mary and grandfather Anthony L Passaro Sr. My grandma had several prior miscarriages before the birth of her only child. From the little I know of his birth, I know…

  The Deconstructed

  July 11, 2022

  Anthony, Bird, Catholic, Dad, Death, Father, Grief, Life, Loss, Marriage, Son, Sparrow, Tony, Uncategorized

  Anthony, Bird, Dad, Death, Father, Grief, Life, Loss, Son, Sparrow, Tony

• Spiderman and the Journey Into Obscurity

  “I never knew you. Depart from me.” This is the violence of rejection. It is not arbitrary when Jesus says this in Matthew 7. It comes as a result of a series of statements that imply the independence of individuals who are motivated by the pursuit of glory and honor and superiority at the expense…

  The Deconstructed

  January 7, 2022

  Journey, Life, No Way Home, Obscurity, Rejection, Spiderman, Uncategorized

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