Dannism
Writings.

I know I write poems and also write in other styles. But in terms of faith, I have a God I live with. She is a practical, physical presence. I have heard people say Dannism is a pagan religion. Some say it is a philosophy. Some say I am a pagan.

My role is not to judge people's beliefs or determine which path to God is right. I am an observer and reporter, an admirer and promoter of what works and of what, in this instance, people see as their door to romance with the divine.

There are many ideas about God. Dannism insists that no single person's understanding should automatically be accepted as the only right one, just as another person's understanding should not automatically be dismissed as wrong.

There comes a point in illness when the body is no longer merely the site of suffering but the place where bargains are made. The language of medicine calls these bargains treatment plans, protocols, interventions, options. The language is necessary. It gives structure to terror. It allows the unbearable to be scheduled, explained, consented to, measured, and repeated. But beneath that language lies something older and more difficult: the body must surrender something in order to be saved, and sometimes what it surrenders is not small.

The body pays, and the payment is often demanded in the name of survival.