Brad Bursa

  • Silence and Discretion

    Recently, I had a bad cough. You know, the type that causes your chest and throat to burn and gives your once-six-pack-abs a good workout? Yes, that kind. The kind of cough that lingers as an evil tickle in the back of your throat. One false word, one false breath will cause it to explode…

    Brad Bursa

  • Problem

    In Thoughts in Solitude, Thomas Merton writes: In our age everything has to be a “problem.” Ours is a time of anxiety because we have willed it to be so. Our anxiety is not imposed on us by force from outside. We impose it on our world and upon one another from within ourselves. Merton…

    Brad Bursa