Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 July 2019 One of the best known poems of the Nineteenth Century was the “Charge of the Light Brigade,” by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. It captures both the courage soldiers display when facing certain death and the foolishness of war.
The Light Brigade had been ordered to charge the front, and although that meant charging into certain death, […]
Posted May 31, 2015 in Uncategorized By Joel Bowman, on 31 May 2015 Charles Dickens opens A Tale of Two Cities with one of the best-known lines in all of English literature:
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of […]
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 […]
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