I may be the only regular reader of this newsletter who has actually been to war. My guess is that most of our readers are following Debra, and, like her, are women. In general, especially these days in the States, men have more experience with war than women do. “My” war was Vietnam. All my […]
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Posted September 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2020 September 30th, 2020 | Tags: Army, beggar, brotherhood, chance, combat, conflict, disease, events, extraordinary, Grace of God, hold energy, humanity, last generation, life, London, Londoner, Love, luck of the draw, lucky, male relatives, men, mysteries, newsletter, Peace, perspective, physical problems, poverty, reports, spiritual lessons, study war, study war no more, there but for the grade of god, type, Vietnam, war, wealth, women | 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 August 31, 2014 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 August 2014 One of the things about life is that we never really know what’s next. Most people know the saying by Scottish poet Robert Burns, “The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men / Gang aft agley.” Most of us can also think of one or more things in our lives that confirm its truth. In many […] August 31st, 2014 | Tags: Army, B schools, best-laid plans, calculus, chronic fatigue syndrome, clerk, college, combat, grad school, graduate, high school, hypnosis, literature, Mary Jo Bulbrook, medic, neurolinguistic programming, NLP, psychology, retrospect, Robert Burns, sailing vessels, social activism, sociology, soul purpose, steam ships, tacking, type, typing, University of Illinois, Vietnam | Category: Uncategorized | Comments are closed |
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