One of my joyful memories from childhood was looking at the night sky. I grew up in Los Altos, California, when it was still a small town in the middle of agricultural properties, primarily apricot orchards and bean fields. Between the time my family first moved there and my graduation from high school, the whole […]
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Posted February 29, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 29 February 2020 February 29th, 2020 | Tags: agriculture, apricot orchards, bean fields, California, camp fires, curiosity, curiosity killed the cat, grasp, harbor, Heaven, high bar, jets, light plollution, literature, Los Altos, Moffett Field, Navy, night sky, protagonist, reach, science fiction, ships, Star Trek, star-studded, subdivisions, suburbia, Tennyson, Ulysses | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted June 30, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2019 A long time ago, back in the the Age of Rock & Roll, a group called Aerosmith wrote and performed a song called “Dream On”: I confess that I am a child of the Rock & Roll era. I hit adolescence at the time Bill Haley and the Comets released Rock Around the […] June 30th, 2019 | Tags: Aerosmith, Anger, Arrowsmith, Beyond Laughter, Chrystal Blue Persuasion, Dream On, emotion, emotional life, emotions, envy, fart jokes, guitar, healing, jealousy, laughter, literary expression, literature, Martin Grotjahn, meaning of life, Music, persuasion, piano, rage, relationships, rhythm and blues, rock & roll, Rock and Roll, sadness, Shakespeare, Shondels, tears, Tommy James | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed Posted March 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2019 I’m an old-fashioned guy, and I believe in words—verbal communication. I had read Herman Melville’s Moby Dick twice by the time I was out of high school. I’m also the only guy I know not some-kind of minister who has read the Bible twice. I read it once out of curiosity while I was still […] March 31st, 2019 | Tags: auditory, Bible, Christianity, comic books, Dickens, emoji, emotional component, evil, good, Herman Melville, high school, images, labor-intensive, language, literature, minister, Moby Dick, novas, obscene gesture, old-fashioned, reading, sailing vessels, Stories, verbal description, visual, visual images, Walt Disney, western language, whaling, whiteness, words | 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 September 30, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2015 In The Mental Traveller, the nineteenth-century poet William Blake says, “For the eye altering alters all.” In the poem, Blake is exploring the spiritual history of humanity as well as his own spiritual history. Regardless of the degree to which we are aware of it, we all have a spiritual history and a sense of […] September 30th, 2015 | Tags: Auguries of Innocence, authority, Buddha, chakra system, chakras, cognitive triangle, compassion, Confuscius, culture. humanity, dance, Drama Triangle, history, human consciousness, Jesus, law, legal systems, literature, losers, Music, painting, persecutor, poetry, rescuer, sculpture, slaves, spiritual, spiritual history, spirituality, spoils, Steve Karpman, territorial control, the drama triangle, The Mental Traveller, transrational, tribal, tribal laws, tribes, victim, victor, wars, William Blake | 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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