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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.
July 9, 2025

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.
August 14, 2024

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…
January 2, 2024

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…
December 21, 2023