A Narrative Collage

YULE December 21 - Winter Solstice, December 20-23; varies according to the particular date on the standard calendar according to when the Solstice will occur astronomically. In the story of the Goddess and the God that is reflected in the solar year, we celebrate the birth of the God as Oak King to the Mother aspect of the Goddess on Winter Solstice (or Yule, approximately December 21st)....

October2005 The General Theory of Love September 2005 Risk Taking No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame August 2005 The Common Thread Etiguette of a Gentleman Admit it: We're mediocre and don't care Emotions: Basic, Primal, Immature, Unevolved? Silence Liberates! Narrative Collage? Intelligent Design The Debate Continues or I'm reading too many magazines at the beach...

A General Theory of Love by Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, Richard Lannon I highly recommend this book........ A General Theory of Love, by San Francisco psychiatrists Thomas Lewis, Fari Amini, and Richard Lannon, is a powerfully humanistic look at the natural history of our deepest feelings, and why a simple hug is often more important than a portfolio full of stock options. Their...

What lets risk-takers mine primal sources or soar with creative currents? These "on the edge" individuals: Are not overly preoccupied with making mistakes or with social disapproval; they are able to tolerate the anxiety of separateness, Have a strong enough ego to admit when they are wrong or in trouble, and Analyze, emotionally experience and learn from trial and error. And with this...

September 2005 Risk Taking No Place for a Poet at a Banquet of Shame August 2005 The Common Thread Etiguette of a Gentleman Admit it: We're mediocre and don't care Emotions: Basic, Primal, Immature, Unevolved? Silence Liberates! Narrative Collage? Intelligent Design The Debate Continues or I'm reading too many magazines at the beach... A True Account Of Talking To The Sun At...

For reasons spelled out below, the poet Sharon Olds has declined to attend the National Book Festival in Washington, which, coincidentally or not, takes place September 24, the day of an antiwar mobilization in the capital. Olds, winner of a National Book Critics Circle Award and professor of creative writing at New York University, was invited along with a number of other writers by First Lady...

The Common Thread is found in the philosophy contained within each religious doctrine, overlaid by myths, local histories and particularistic doctrine, it is the philosophical commonality that unifies all religions. 1. The Divine principle in Hinduism this is the Brahman, in Buddhism it is the Mind, for Christian and Protestant mystics, it is the concepts of Godhead. Within the Mohammedan...