Posted January 31, 2019 in Monthly News

Conversation Hearts

Drawing on my fine command

of the language,

I said nothing.

Robert Benchle

Years ago I won a Valentine’s Day poetry contest that was sponsored by our local radio station. I regret to say I did not save the poem, but […]

Posted June 30, 2016 in Monthly News

Other Plans

John Lennon wrote one of his most famous lines, “Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans,” in a song for his son Sean: Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy). Although he wasn’t the first to have that thought (for earlier versions, look here), the Lennon version has become the most quoted, perhaps […]

Posted September 30, 2015 in Monthly News

The Altering Eye

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 […]

Posted January 31, 2015 in Monthly News

Out My Window

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 […]