In truth, all through the haunted forest there could be nothing more frightful than the figure of Goodman Brown. Beside the Technicolor fantasy of a quartet of characters leaving their homes and going into a foreboding forest to gain what they think they are lacking from a wizard (see my previous post), there is…
The five-day conference, “Alethea Lit Conference – Form without Substance? brought Irene to town. She was to lead the symposium O Still Voice of Calm on day three. On Sunday evening Irene checked into room 351 and got settled. Pulling back the drapes she could see a terrace and beyond that the wooded campus of…
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.” Tennessee Williams “…guys like us, that work on ranches are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don’t belong to no place”-George Milton, John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men “Social dislocation can…
Ritual. During my train rides to and from work, I will read non-fiction on my way in to work and fiction on the way home. That has been my habit for the past seven years. For example: Over the past couple of weeks I have been reading from N.T. Wright’s Kingdom New Testament and Leon…
You are about to take a bus ride into another dimension. No, not a trip to the Twilight Zone. Or, maybe it IS to the Real Twilight Zone! Despite the nonsense that comes from Oprah’s media pulpit, all roads are not radii that lead to God and Heaven. Instead there will be a Fork in…
