Sublime

We all want to know that we’re truly accepted into the communities we join. An initiation is any activity that’s understood as official recognition and welcome into the community. The initiation helps members understand clearly who’s part of the community. It marks the completed journey over the boundary and into the inner ring.

every fifty years, we are reminded that no one stays a slave forever. Freedom comes to everyone, whether they want it or not.

The Seeker arrived at the U.S. Coast Guard Station in Manasquan Inlet at about ten P.M. Each man aboard the boat was taken inside and asked to write an account of the incident, then was released.

After a lengthy initiation into the village society of warrior priests, administered by men who had in the past been initiates, men who had themselves also killed in the past, these two men were mystically turned into a different kind of human altogether. As changed beings, they would then assume their place inside the society of warrior priests, a

that a thousand times I had been called Nigger, and laughed, and now I could not laugh. The word and the way Shawn said it hadn’t changed; only my ears were different. They no longer heard the jingle of a joke in it. What they heard was a signal, a call through time, which was answered with a mounting conviction: that never again would I allow myse