While the odyssey traced in Ithaca Is The Journey is highly personal, its central insight relates to the odyssey of all. Spiritual journeyers are invited by these pages to remember the great secret: the Promised Land they are yearning for is somehow the very ground upon which they stand; the haven they hope to find at their journey's end is, as sages have long mysteriously suggested, no where other than at hand. The paradox of life thus has it that we are to honor our homesickness by continuing to search far and wide and deep, and simultaneously to smile from our mystic's soul to know that...
While the odyssey traced in Ithaca Is The Journey is highly personal, its central insight relates to the odyssey of all. Spiritual journeyers are invi...
Slavery and the Civil War-what is the connection, and does it matter? From the view point of the book in your hands, the connection is absolute and it matters greatly. Steppingstones to the Civil War invites readers to revisit American history, especially those believing that the devastation costing 600,000 lives (think on that figure) and shaking to the foundations the American experiment was at root about states' rights, economy and Northern imperialism and only incidentally about slavery. As the chapters on John Calhoun, Alexander Stephens, Jefferson Davis and the Commissioners from the...
Slavery and the Civil War-what is the connection, and does it matter? From the view point of the book in your hands, the connection is absolute and it...
The worlds of counseling and sports have things vital in common. Both are arenas for facing and overcoming adversity, for going beyond the limits of ordinary experience, for transcending. In sports it is easy to see. Beyond cheering on our favorite player or team, what we secretly hope and watch for is this potential at any moment for transcendence. Even if it's but one superlative play, one dazzling move in the entire game, our watchful spirits see it and soar. Dazzling moments may be less apparent in counseling, because less tangible, but the elation there can be even greater with so much...
The worlds of counseling and sports have things vital in common. Both are arenas for facing and overcoming adversity, for going beyond the limits of o...
Just what is poetry, and who writes it, and why do they write it, and did they always write it or is it something that develops gradually, and how do they go about it, and what are some of the frustrations, and if the frustrations are great what even greater rewards are sufficient to keep spurring them on, and who are they writing for, and where do their ideas come from, and what influence do other poets and writers have on them, and, after repeated rejections from publishers, what keeps them from chucking it all in favor of less unpredictable not to mention more remunerative undertakings?...
Just what is poetry, and who writes it, and why do they write it, and did they always write it or is it something that develops gradually, and how do ...
Few things go deeper than relationships with parents, or are more complex. And as children become adults and their parents move inexorably towards decline and death, the complexity only deepens even as a primordial simplicity reemerges.
While the reflections in these poems are of course personal, they touch on things universal. Many besides me have struggled with ambivalence towards their parents, and all of us, unless the natural order is reversed, have to live through the fiery crucible of our parents' dying.
Come learn of the man from whom I learned stability, integrity, roots;...
Few things go deeper than relationships with parents, or are more complex. And as children become adults and their parents move inexorably towards...
