Posted April 1, 2021 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 1 April 2021 The old saying is, “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names can never hurt me.” It isn’t true, however. Sometimes names are the most hurtful of injuries, leading to shame and embarrassment that last much longer than any associated physical injury. Another very old saying is, “Actions speak louder than words.” While generally […]
Posted March 1, 2021 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 1 March 2021 Debra and I are very different in some ways. While we have sufficient traits in common to allow for working together, the way we process information and relate not only to the past but also to our sense of the future differs significantly. Some of those differences are gender based: men learn to process information […]
Posted October 31, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 October 2020 Truth be told, you have no choice because not voting is also a “vote.” It may not be a vote for a candidate, but it is an expression of political preference, nevertheless.
A long time ago, a musical group called The Fugs asked the question, “Why are we always voting for the lesser of […]
Posted September 30, 2020 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2020 I may be the only regular reader of this newsletter who has actually been to war. My guess is that most of our readers are following Debra, and, like her, are women. In general, especially these days in the States, men have more experience with war than women do. “My” war was Vietnam. All my […]
Posted September 30, 2016 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 30 September 2016 Humans like to think of themselves as the “Crown of Creation.” In 1968, Jefferson Airplane captured the irony of the human tendency to presume that we had achieved the pinnacle of the evolutionary process in the song, “Crown of Creation”:
You are the crown of creation. You are the crown of creation, And you’ve […]
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 October 31, 2015 in Monthly News By Joel Bowman, on 31 October 2015 In 1802, William Wordsworth wrote a poem usually known by its first line: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is […]
Posted June 15, 2014 in Uncategorized By Debra Basham, on 15 June 2014 Understanding Curing and Healing
I once heard Dr. Bernie Siegel tell an auditorium filled with people not to do a single thing just because it might help him or her live. He told us that death is 100% certain. While those were shocking statements, it is a fact that, in spite of all the advances […]
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