Posted December 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Debra Basham, on 31 December 2020 As 2020 slides into our “past” it is very significant to be intentional about cataloging our experiences in our mind. How will 2020 be remembered? Will it remembered as positive, negative, or can it be remembered as just an experience, without adding any adjectives?
The challenge with adjectives is that we can use them then […]
Posted June 30, 2018 in Uncategorized By Debra Basham, on 30 June 2018 “By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person.” Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing, by Caroline Myss
On May 30, 2018, Joel had hernia surgery. Since his son and daughter-in-law live in Tennessee, surgery was scheduled for a time I […]
Posted June 30, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 June 2018 I base my title on a line from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. The original refers to Caesar’s betrayal by Brutus. Being stabbed by his friend was Caesar’s unkindest cut. My recent cut was for surgical purposes: I had a hernia that needed repair, and the only way to repair a hernia is to cut through layers […]
Posted March 31, 2017 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2017 In 1928 John A. Shedd published a collection of sayings (“Salt from My Attic”) that included the following saying, “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” You may also be familiar with the saying, “Any port in a storm.” The recently recovered audio tapes from the El […]
Posted March 31, 2016 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 March 2016 Those of you who know both Debra and me won’t be surprised to learn that we have different ideas about voting. We agree that politics is “outside the vortex.” My sense is that a lot of life is outside the vortex, from banking and investing to modern techniques of food production.
Nevertheless, I […]
Posted July 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2015 To the best of my knowledge, the term Spiritual Partnership was coined by Gary Zukav, who used the term initially to refer to his relationship with Linda Francis, his wife. Debra and I read Zukav’s first book, Seat of the Soul, at a time we were doing a lot of fighting. Although we shared many […]
Posted April 30, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 April 2015 One of the principal challenges of modern life is keeping up. The other principal challenge is remaining calm and centered even while working to keep up with the way things are changing. The rate at which things are changing has been increasing exponentially for generations. For thousands of years, the only way for humans to […]
Posted January 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 January 2015 Back in 1965, Paul Simon wrote one of his masterpieces, I am a Rock. The opening lyrics are the following:
A winter’s day In a deep and dark December; I am alone, Gazing from my window to the […]
Posted November 16, 2014 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 16 November 2014 Although I do not have a coy mistress, I increasingly find myself contemplating Andrew Marvell’s poem, “To His Coy Mistress”. The poem is probably the best-known carpe diem, or “seize the day,” poem in English literature. The main theme of the poem is the need to take advantage of today because time passes quickly, and […]
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