Category: Essays

  • Will It Be A Memory?

    There is nothing given but what something is taken away.   For many lifetimes our planet has given her people lush greens and vibrant blues and a sundry of goods to please the avaricious heart.   We know for a fact who this is among us.   We all participate in the plundering of our Mother Earth;  in…

  • Approaching Earth Day (April 22, 2015)

    To Honor Our Earth Mother Teachers and Students Speak With One Voice. . . There are guidelines set since time immemorial for human conduct.   These are irrefutable.   Such as to be kind to one another.   To love one another,  to do unto others, etc.   These are not premises of a general nature but with a…

  • The Knotted Family Ties

    The Knotted Family Ties The trauma that engulfs a family when a sibling transits this world leaves unbelievable tears in a family fabric.  Everything surrounding, every event takes on a meaning whose depth only the individuals directly affected can hope they withstand.  They must master this poignant injury if they are one day to emerge…

  • The God Search

    From a work in progress I speak of beginning my search,  because of course the word journey was outside my frame of reference.  I had no way of knowing that this was something only the very brave and the well educated  ventured on.    No one seemed to have answers to my questions and I was…

  • The Invited Guest. . . .the Carpenter

    The Teachers Speak. . . .and yet the beauty we encounter is being multiplied here and there,  but lacking only the invisible quotient.. . . . we have not been invited in.   What did you learn to do so young?   To invite the hosts of heaven as your daily companions and then to proceed to…

  • A New Road

    A New Road Whenever religious holy days   come to be,   I cannot help but think of those who are in the throes of giving up their religion and leaving what has been their way of life.  It is not an easy decision to come to, no matter the age of the person. The young will…

  • One Of The Best Things

    One Of The Best Things One of the best things about growing old is that one has a store of memories to choose from to either entertain,  beguile or sometimes companion one in the body’s misery.   All one has to do is  conjure  the memory and whoa!    There we are.   Simple as that.  One just…

  • The Mist That Sustains Me

    On NBC Nightly News this past March 20 a segment concerning a young boy with memory of a prior life was interviewed and his memories have proven valid and correct.   I was not aware that Dr. Tucker of the University of Virginia was doing research on prior lives of children.   As he said in the…

  • Grace To Be Trusted

    Grace To Be Trusted  It is impossible to live or continue to live with a philosophy that covers personal life and not one’s public life.  To have it cover one and not the other is asking the observer to believe one portion and to close out the other as not applicable..    The dichotomy will rear…

  • Choice Goods

    Choice Goods  I would like to live long enough to see the children who are born with more than the usual five senses come out of the closet of mind so they will be asked what they see, hear, think and what they remember.   And be looked upon as someone highly gifted and of…