The Soul as Playwright

Alone in the theater house lights down curtain in the wings stage light in a cage red “Exit” signs third row middle seat thirty-three I ponder. He said, “All the world’s a stage.” This time ’round I’m the star The stage a platform The theater a world. This life the play soul the playwright body […]

Teachers and Teaching

A guest posting, taken from my daughter’s recent blog I will forever love this photograph taken in my Mother’s freshman high school English Literature classroom in the late seventies (check out my teeth!). Mom — and Dad — were my very first teachers both in their professional and personal lives. I watched as they strived […]

Joy

The soul’s feedback mechanism When I first printed this image, I thought it was a nice expression of childhood exuberance. Looking deeper now, I see  humanity standing between earth and cosmos expressing joy. Given how our bodies evolved from the earth, it’s like the planet’s rising up here, now conscious, reaching out in a celebration […]