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[troi-kuh] –noun
any group of three persons, nations, etc., acting equally in unison to exert influence, control, or the like.Justin Reads
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In Christmas – A Cure for the Pain
by Marcie Little . . .Lately I’ve been thinking about pain. It’s all around us in the sufferings of other people, the injustices of mankind against itself. It’s also inside of us. We are pained most of all often enough by those we love the most – and who love us most. As human beings, it surrounds us and is [...] -
Heroics
by Matt Pitchford . . .A friend of mine asked me about “life philosophy” a little while ago. We talked about a wide range of things, but I remember specifically discussing the concept of “epic.” I believe that life is absolutely epic in its scope, ranging from world changing to extremely personal. Life can be heroic, no matter if you [...] -
Tis the Season . . .
by Matt Pitchford . . .The next time we are all gathered together on campus, it will be a new year. It’s a time of personal beginnings, even if it doesn’t portend any significant changes on the level of civilizations. There won’t be a presidential election or Olympic games. 2011 isn’t even as exciting as the predicted apocalypse (1984, Y2K, [...] -
Growing Up
by Matt Pitchford . . .Age is a funny sort of thing. It’s so easy to compare the years of our birth, as if the differences revealed any sort of meaning. Especially in a place where the relative age difference between most of us covers a five-year margin, it is important to recognize the strangeness of equating significance with years [...] -
100 Posts!
by Matt Pitchford . . .There are lots of important 100‘s. You know, top 100 songs, books, or speeches. But here’s another one, TroikaPress just posted it’s 100th. Here’s to 100 more. -
Light in Darkness
by Marcie Little . . .One of my most recent undertakings has been to read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina. This has been on my to-do list for months, and it is embarrassing how many times I’ve checked the book out from the library, not been able to read it, re-checked it out, had to return it, checked and re-checked it again. [...] -
Masks
by Matt Pitchford . . .It seems natural enough that our culture values authenticity and genuineness above deception and pretending. We prefer people to be “real” with us, rather than pretending to be something they are not. We dislike people who wear one “mask” with a certain group of people and another mask with others. But this valuing of reality [...] -
Thankful
by Marcie Little . . .I’ve always loved Thanksgiving. For me it has always been a day when I spend time with family I only see once a year. It is a day filled with lots of fun times in the kitchen preparing tasty food, lots of football watching, and great conversations around the dinner table. For my family, there [...] -
In lieu of certainty
by Matt Pitchford . . .As college students, we seem to be exposed to relatively high degree of unpredictability. We can still operate, relatively contentedly, without knowing what will come next weekend, next semester, next year, or after college. But being unsettled in all things at all times is never comfortable. At some point, we feel better when we know, [...] -
Running
by Guest Author . . .By Christian Curran. “Honor is a man’s gift to himself,” I think in the voice of Liam Neeson, my breath pumping in and out of my body in measured bursts. Honor. Slow breath in. The Samurai will have honor or they will kill themselves. Quick breath out. Bushido seems a little excessive. My legs move more quickly as my mind distracts [...]