2020: An End and a Start
Four Quartets is considered Eliot’s masterpiece, and its final lines suggest the culmination of his life’s work in this contribution: Life can be purified in the present.
Read MoreMerry Little Christmas
As the song imparts, the ‘muddle’ doesn’t preclude the ‘merry’; it necessitates it.
Read MoreLet There Be Lights
Every year, in this nebulous state of mind, there is a luminous saving grace: Christmas lights.
Read MoreOn Heroism
Healthcare professionals face peril with courage daily, but this heroism is so invisible that it has become inconceivable.
Read MoreOn Changing Fortunes and Time Capsules
Writing poetry is a certain effort to encapsulate passing contemplations, which makes a poem something of
a time capsule.
The US Election: Historic Media Moments
These are just a few media moments etched in my mind following a momentous week in
the history of the US and the world.
September's Slate
The ‘slate’ recalls the flat plate written on with chalk, formerly used in schools; its cleanness, a past erased and a space yet to be filled.
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