I borrow my title from lines spoken by Shakespeare’s Hamlet, who has just figured out that his uncle murdered his father. Shakespeare wrote Hamlet in 1601. In spite of the great expanse of human history and speculation, we still do not understand the relationship between what we call “life” and what we call “death.” Humans […]
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Posted November 30, 2018 in Monthly News By Joel P. Bowman, on 30 November 2018 November 30th, 2018 | Tags: academe, academic, Army, Bernadine Branchaw, cancer, Civil Rights, colleagues, college, death, dogs, dream-like, dreams, dying, eternal, grandfather, Hamlet, Healing Touch, helicopters, John Keats, literature, Long Binh, privilege, Sam Kinison, Shakespeare, through a glass darkly, vale of soul-making, Vietnam, Vietnam War, wishful thinking, wounded, WWII | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed 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 […] January 31st, 2016 | Tags: 1969, Barbara Marx Hubbard, Changes, chaos, conflict, conscious evolution, creativity, David Bowie, drugs, earth, evolve, forging steel, history, humanity, John Keats, leavings of hammers, Marmalade, old English, pain, police, poverty, Reflections of My Life, reincarnation, sixth extinction, swords, terror, the evolutionary testament of co-creation, vale of soul-making, Vietnam, war, war metaphor | Category: Monthly News | Comments are closed |
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