Anthony Adoré — New Reflections https://anthonyadore.com New essays, reflections, and book news from author Anthony Adoré—writing on faith, desire, grief, identity, and the divided self. Sat, 10 Oct 2026 12:07:20 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.4 https://anthonyadore.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/anthony-adore-temporary-site-icon-512-66x66.png Anthony Adoré https://anthonyadore.com 32 32 https://anthonyadore.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/anthony-adore-temporary-site-icon-512-200x200.pngAnthony Adoréhttps://anthonyadore.com/144144 That Ache After the Sheets Go Cold https://anthonyadore.com/ache-after-sex-hollowness/ Fri, 30 Oct 2026 13:08:42 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914829 A woman lying awake at dawn in tangled grey sheets, one hand open on the dim empty half of the bed
Why women feel pain, hollowness, or grief after sex - the ache after the sheets go cold, read honestly through the exile of the heart.
Why women feel pain, hollowness, or grief after sex - the ache after the sheets go cold, read honestly through the exile of the heart.]]> That Ache After the Sheets Go Cold Why women feel pain, hollowness, or grief after sex - the ache after the sheets go cold, read honestly through the exile of the heart. Anthony Adoré Breadcrumbs You Leave for Someone to Find https://anthonyadore.com/breadcrumbs-you-leave-to-find/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 22:01:22 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914316 A small wooden table with scattered breadcrumbs and two copper coins in dim window light
Surviving a breakup: how one man learned to burn in love that ends, read the signs of leaving, and stay honest in what breaks. A hard, human guide.
Surviving a breakup: how one man learned to burn in love that ends, read the signs of leaving, and stay honest in what breaks. A hard, human guide.]]> Breadcrumbs You Leave for Someone to Find Surviving a breakup: how one man learned to burn in love that ends, read the signs of leaving, and stay honest in what breaks. A hard, human guide. Anthony Adoré That Meme You Keep Sending Is a Test https://anthonyadore.com/screaming-meme-performing-the-test/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:01:02 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914777 A young woman on a dark porch, a smoking taper ash falling, her face half-lit and listening intently to someone unseen
That girl screaming in the car meme? It's a test broadcast to one person. What we're really asking when we perform our pain out loud.
That girl screaming in the car meme? It's a test broadcast to one person. What we're really asking when we perform our pain out loud.]]> That Meme You Keep Sending Is a Test That girl screaming in the car meme? It's a test broadcast to one person. What we're really asking when we perform our pain out loud. Anthony Adoré Why You Joke About Serious Things, and Who Hears Past It https://anthonyadore.com/joke-about-serious-things/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 16:07:05 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915310 A lone man laughing in the glow of a small clay lamp at night, his eyes not laughing
Why do I joke about serious things? The joke lets the wound speak with its hand over its own mouth, until someone listens past the punchline.
Why do I joke about serious things? The joke lets the wound speak with its hand over its own mouth, until someone listens past the punchline.]]> Why You Joke About Serious Things, and Who Hears Past It Why do I joke about serious things? The joke lets the wound speak with its hand over its own mouth, until someone listens past the punchline. Anthony Adoré The Two Looks https://anthonyadore.com/the-two-looks/ Thu, 29 Oct 2026 13:06:20 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9922824 A young woman composing her posture as she feels an observing gaze, poised yet quietly anxious
How the eye that seeks differs from the eye that finds
How the eye that seeks differs from the eye that finds]]> The Two Looks How the eye that seeks differs from the eye that finds Anthony Adoré Where God Speaks Without a Word https://anthonyadore.com/language-of-god-silence/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 22:05:54 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914223 A single lit candle glowing in the deep shadow of a vast cathedral nave
Is the language of God silence? A memoir's cathedral scene shows how God speaks in the quiet, walking with us inside our own darkness.
Is the language of God silence? A memoir's cathedral scene shows how God speaks in the quiet, walking with us inside our own darkness.]]> Where God Speaks Without a Word Is the language of God silence? A memoir's cathedral scene shows how God speaks in the quiet, walking with us inside our own darkness. Anthony Adoré Feeling the Book Before You Understand It https://anthonyadore.com/feeling-book-before-understanding/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 19:05:46 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915257 A single open scroll on a table in low afternoon light, a hand resting near the page, warmth implied but no faces
Why do I feel a book so deeply before I can explain it? A reflection on the way meaning reaches the body before the mind can name it.
Why do I feel a book so deeply before I can explain it? A reflection on the way meaning reaches the body before the mind can name it.]]> Feeling the Book Before You Understand It Why do I feel a book so deeply before I can explain it? A reflection on the way meaning reaches the body before the mind can name it. Anthony Adoré Winning a Soul Without Forcing the Gate https://anthonyadore.com/winning-a-soul-without-force/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 16:02:33 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9915277 A solitary figure at the far edge of a lush garden field at dusk, watching from beyond an unseen boundary
How do you do missionary work? Not by force. A reflection on patient watching, the barred will, and the long, humbling labor of love.
How do you do missionary work? Not by force. A reflection on patient watching, the barred will, and the long, humbling labor of love.]]> Winning a Soul Without Forcing the Gate How do you do missionary work? Not by force. A reflection on patient watching, the barred will, and the long, humbling labor of love. Anthony Adoré Tenderness for the Fatherless Self https://anthonyadore.com/tenderness-for-the-fatherless-self/ Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:09:12 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9922711 A young mother at a nursery doorway at dusk, tender and grieving beside unused baby things
How the absent father lives on in the spaces we prepare for what will never arrive
How the absent father lives on in the spaces we prepare for what will never arrive]]> Tenderness for the Fatherless Self How the absent father lives on in the spaces we prepare for what will never arrive Anthony Adoré Failing a Test and Facing the Emptied Self https://anthonyadore.com/failing-test-facing-emptied-self/ Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:05:52 +0000 https://anthonyadore.com/?p=9914205 A young man alone at a desk in gray dawn light, a red-marked paper face-down beside him
How to deal with academic failure: a red D- becomes strange grace. A raw, Catholic reflection on humiliation, exile, and the mercy hidden in the dark.
How to deal with academic failure: a red D- becomes strange grace. A raw, Catholic reflection on humiliation, exile, and the mercy hidden in the dark.]]> Failing a Test and Facing the Emptied Self How to deal with academic failure: a red D- becomes strange grace. A raw, Catholic reflection on humiliation, exile, and the mercy hidden in the dark. Anthony Adoré