Saving my Smoting I have got incontrovertible, absolute, divine Proof of Non-God. I have been so incontrovertibly, absolutely, divinely sinful, I should have been smote from here to Kingdom Come. Yes, I should have been smote, not whispering: I’ve had some lucky escapes!   Unless – He (or She more like) is saving my smoting for when I least expect it, savouring it Ten Thousand Times over. No, I don’t think so. I think Non-God nods as my sins run round and round and round and

By Alexandr Ivanovich Borscht is a vibrant beetroot soup from Eastern Europe, rich in flavour, colour, and cultural symbolism. Traditionally made with beets, onions, and beef or vegetable stock, it’s a dish that brings comfort and community to cold nights — and a perfect metaphor for humanist values: simple ingredients transformed through care, attention, and sharing. Alexandr Ivanovich was born in Odessa, Ukraine, in 1989, into a family of musicians and teachers. After trai