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 January 31, 2016 in Monthly News
By Joel Bowman, on 31 January 2016
When Debra first suggested that we write about the way creativity is often sparked by chaos, the first thing that came up for me was my memory of Vietnam in 1969, where I first heard the song. “Reflections of My Life,” by the British group Marmalade. Here are the lyrics:
The changing of sunlight […]
