Sarah Silflow

Sarah J. Silflow is a small-town girl and lover of languages and cultures, especially the language and culture of her home.
Articles by Sarah Silflow
Dissonance, Harmony, and Expectation: On Music and Life
Sometimes in life, silence pervades our stories. The dissonance has passed, and we wait. We wait for resolution; we wait for harmony.
Paranoia and Perfect Love
It would be easy to dismiss my argument as a simple platitude: “Trust God.” But it is trust in the infinite that allows us to trust finite beings.
Parenting Will Kill You Too (And That’s Good)
What this means is death. When our kids were little, parenting meant death to my independence: my time, my space, my very body, were no longer my own. Parenting meant…
On Earth as It Is in Heaven: Embracing Limits to Find Identity, Community, and Place
It is encouraging to see how some young people have embraced limits on energy consumption. But the underlying disease of rapacious desire has not been cured. No, this tradeoff only…