Original Organic or not, I have to ask: Where is home? What is safety? I’m still in shock. I started this essay a little over a week ago because I couldn’t accept the pictures coming out of Western North Carolina. My mind simply couldn’t square those images with my own […]
A Walt Whitman Poem for Christmas Day
My father, the departed and much-missed poet Dr Leonard Wolf, believed that once you write something, it no longer belongs to you. It belongs, as he taught me and his many students, not to the author, but to the universe. He also believed that even if a writer had just […]
Because the Darkness Runs So Deep, The Light Burns So Bright
“While Christmas is undoubtedly a time of great joy, it is also an occasion for deep reflection, even an examination of conscience.” -Pope Benedict XVI, Financial Times, December 20, 2012, “A Time for Christians to Engage the World” “Maybe the Mayans were onto something after all. Perhaps the impending solstice […]