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 […]
Posted July 31, 2017 in Monthly News By Joel and Debra, on 31 July 2017 If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ~ Wayne Dyer
In an 1819 letter to his brother and sister, the poet John Keats said the common notion that life is “a vale of tears … from which we are to be redeemed by a certain arbitrary […]
Posted November 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 November 2016 Unlike Debra, I have no idea what my soul wants me to know. I do know that certain thoughts and actions help me feel better, and certain thoughts and actions result in my feeling worse. I assume those differences are guiding me in the right direction, but I am by no means certain. Unlike Debra […]
Posted July 31, 2016 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2016 Everyone is on a “spiritual path.” Whether you know it or not, you are on a spiritual path. My sense is that it doesn’t matter whether people are consciously aware of their spiritual paths because this is a “fail-safe” universe. You don’t have to do anything special to be on your spiritual path. I am […]
Posted January 31, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 January 2016 When Debra first suggested that we write about the way creativity is often sparked by chaos, the first thing that came up for me was my memory of Vietnam in 1969, where I first heard the song. “Reflections of My Life,” by the British group Marmalade. Here are the lyrics:
The changing of sunlight […]
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