Posted August 31, 2020 in Monthly News

Which Side Are You On?

A long time ago a musician named Pete Seeger wrote a song entitled, “Which Side Are You On:”

The song depicted the conflict (often bloody) between the mine owners and the miners in Harlen County, Kentucky.

Most of the conflicts in human history are based on perceived differences, pitting what is basically one […]

Posted February 29, 2020 in Monthly News

Seeing Stars

One of my joyful memories from childhood was looking at the night sky. I grew up in Los Altos, California, when it was still a small town in the middle of agricultural properties, primarily apricot orchards and bean fields. Between the time my family first moved there and my graduation from high school, the whole […]

Posted July 31, 2019 in Monthly News

The Light Brigade

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 December 31, 2018 in Monthly News

Soul Purpose

John Lennon is usually given credit for having said, “Life is what happens while you are making other plans.” The origin of the saying, however, pre-dates Lennon. That’s understandable, because it is a universal truth. Robert Browning’s version (expressed in Andrea del Sarto) was “a man’s reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what’s a […]

Posted July 31, 2018 in Uncategorized

The Fourth Quarter

I am older than Debra, so if she is in her “third third,” I’m in my fourth quarter. I still have some game left to play, but the clock is ticking, and there are no time outs. At this point in my life, many of the people I have known have died. That includes both […]

Posted March 30, 2018 in Uncategorized

Things Change

This month Debra and I are going back to writing separate articles for the newsletter. Debra’s article, “A Positive Perspective on Projection,” follows this one. As had been our habit, Debra started writing her article first and sent the draft to me for revision and addition. This time, her draft was too good to change […]