John Lennon is usually given credit for having said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The origin of the saying, however, pre-dates Lennon. That’s understandable, because it is a universal truth. Robert Browning’s version (expressed in Andrea del Sarto) was “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a […]
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Posted December 31, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 December 2018 December 31st, 2018 | Tags: after life, believers, California, co-author, death, do not be afraid, dream, dreams, highway, honk, John Lennon, journey, life, messages, mom and dad, ovarian cancer, plans, religion, religions, Taxol program, Tennyson, Ulysses | 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 |
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