Category: Essays

  • A Time In The Heart. . .

      (A grandson wanted me to start blogging and set me up in 2011 and designed the blog.    I posted the foreword from Kiss The Moon in September of 2012 because he thought it was important that readers know how and why I write. There are new readers not familiar with my writing so I…

  • Lest We Forget . . .

    I was sick to my stomach.  I had trouble breathing .   I had to stop before I had another cardiac arrest.  Hearing of the harsh brutality inflicted upon the Jews made me vomit when I was ten.    Studying the holocaust nearing a lifetime of ninety years had the question continuing,   why one man with such…

  • Thoughts For These Times. . .

      Thoughts For These Times. . . .  On this historic day let us remember. . . .what is hidden will surface and cannot be forever controlled. ***** Manipulation is the black boot sitting on the head. ***** He wondered aloud whether he should drop Philosophy.  There is no other class worth the taking I…

  • Under The Wings. . . .

      Psychic phenomena is truly memory.  It is memory from another time and place.  When my mentor, the Nazarene, spoke of talents and told multitudes to increase those, to me he spoke of being open and working with what was within.  He also spoke of what moth and rust do not destroy which are things…

  • I Cherish A Good Hope. . .

      Machiavelli’s letter to Vettori. . . . In the Vettori letter, Machiavelli had written the following,  “The evening being come, I return home and go to my study; at the entrance I pull off my peasant clothes, covered with dust and dirt and put on my noble court dress and thus becomingly reclothed,  I…

  • We Are The Holder Of Memories. . . .

      In researching I came across these two entries and I found them mirroring quantum physics that all time is simultaneous.  And surprisingly found the original poem in my files.  All surprises since memory falters and am glad hard files keep . Journal entry April 6, ’92. . (.Edited only for length) Vault of God.…

  • An Argument Still. . . .

      My mentor, the Nazarene  said,  seeing you will not see and hearing you will not hear.  Why is it when we profess to be followers and even from the pulpits, do not venture to ask,  what did Jesus mean when he said those words?  We think because we see what we see, it is…

  • Sometimes, more than cola. . . of course with hot tea. . . .

      With all that is happening on our national scene and our global scenes, we all need something that will settle the dyspepsia.  It seems I have run out of tonic water and cola so a good stiff drink of something we should find, with hot tea, of course. I was again reminded that heavy…

  • Children Carry The Light. . .

      When Maria Wulf of fullmoonfiberart.com showed the paintings of Blue, I saw Blue’s particular bent added to this art form.  I had one of her works for granddaughter Jessie and wondered when Maria talked of my writing to Blue what would be her thinking.  Her response was that I came to bring a message.…

  • Grace To Be Trusted. . .

      Grace To Be Trusted . . . . (The following was written in another period when we worried whether our democracy would endure, with the lack of moral courage and steel spines apparent. Unquestionably, with knowledge vested,  Speaker Pelosi has shown the example of behavior required of  each of us.)    It is impossible…