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A thorough explanation would not be forthcoming. Not in all the ages of our lives, Though we asked in ten thousand ways. And when we gave up the asking, the waiting, And searched instead through senses and intellect, We again … Continue reading →

The morning rose, yellow and lavender, Calm and wet. She turned from her misgiving window, Paused in her musing doorway, And passed across her grass lawn As so many variations of her had done.   Perhaps it was the escort … Continue reading →

POSTURE This experience is here now. Now. It’s here, and it’s here now. Have I feared it? I have. I wade now in the thick of it. It weighs heavy on the thighs. The torso strains for balance But leans … Continue reading →

(untitled) What is the charge that is given us then, When we have seen through the Theosophists’ veils And know that our own personal Will Has become our finest direction, Is nothing but The Truth, And a child comes to … Continue reading →

(untitled) Once there were new eyes                                                                     … Continue reading →

This is the first entry of the contents of my recently self-published book, Once There Came A Thought The book contains ten poems written since sometime in the 1960’s, and the lyrics to fifteen songs that I have written beginning … Continue reading →

Some time ago, I started a website called School of the Open Road, after Walt Whitman’s poem Song of the Open Road, which poem is about learning how a self grows through grasping more and more of the essence of … Continue reading →

Just to let you know, the ideas that I’m writing about here are perhaps best followed by starting at the beginning — reading the first entry before reading the others. That first one was posted 2010/10/19 — Schools and Prisons … Continue reading →

Okay, so the idea here is, maybe to try to put it simply, that my goal as an educator has become — and should be, as I see it — hell, I feel it, sense it, hell, I vibrate with … Continue reading →

Okay, so here’s a little more, another story, another example of what I’m talking about — about how schools as they are now just flat-out miss the point, although most everybody involved with the schools, except for most of the … Continue reading →