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Posted April 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 April 2020 The title of my article for this month comes from a song popular in the 1950s, “Time Was”: Time was when we had fun On the school yard swings When we exchanged graduation rings One lovely yesterday Time was when we wrote Love letters in the sand Or lingered over our coffee and Dreaming the […] April 30th, 2020 | Tags: 5 minutes, awareness, beach, California, childhood, choice, consciousness, Edward Fitzgerald, hay rides, heart, hikes, history, ideal time, John Lennon, life, Morris Massey, moving finger, Omar Khayyam, peaceful time, relaxation, rest, Rubáiyát, speaker, the beach, time, tomorrow, Vietnam War, What You Are, Where You Were, workshop | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted March 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 31 March 2020 The term WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) came into common use when computer screens became capable of putting letters and words on the screen that would look the way a page printed from them looked. At this point, of course, you have to be pretty old to remember what things were like in the “old days,” before WYSIWYG […] March 31st, 2020 | Tags: altering eye, automobiles, Blake, change, cities, computers, countries, experience, geeks, Kalamazoo, Mexico, Michigan, middle age, perspective, Shakespeare, smart phones, states, terminals, the Mental Travller, typewriter, Vietnam, water buffalo, what you see is what you get, William Blake, wisdom, WYSIWYG | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted November 30, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 November 2018 I borrow my title from lines spoken by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who has just figured out that his uncle murdered his father. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1601. In spite of the great expanse of human history and speculation, we still do not understand the relationship between what we call “life” and what we call “death.” Humans […] November 30th, 2018 | Tags: academe, academic, Army, Bernadine Branchaw, cancer, Civil Rights, colleagues, college, death, dogs, dream-like, dreams, dying, eternal, grandfather, Hamlet, Healing Touch, helicopters, John Keats, literature, Long Binh, privilege, Sam Kinison, Shakespeare, through a glass darkly, vale of soul-making, Vietnam, Vietnam War, wishful thinking, wounded, WWII | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted April 30, 2018 in Uncategorized By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 April 2018 Debra’s article this month introduces an important topic: sexual identity. We’ve known for a long time that not all cultures treated sexual orientation the way we in modern, Western civilization have treated it. Homosexuality—especially male homosexuality—has been both well-accepted and severely punished at different times in history and in different cultures. I would be […] April 30th, 2018 | Tags: bisexuality, childish fears, communicable disease, contamination, Coolies, criminalization of sexuality, cross dressing, discrimination, fear and anger, fear of blacks, fear of other, hate, homosexuality, Indians, Japanese Americans, modern medicine, Native Americans, plagues, race, sexual identity, sexual orientation, whites and blacks | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed |
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