2022: Christmas missive
2022: CHRISTMAS MISSIVE “Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht, Alles schlaeft, einsam wacht … Silent night, holy night, All is calm, all is bright …” “ … the mist was slow to clear and suddenly my orderly threw himself into my dugout to say that both the German and Scottish soldiers had come out of their […]
Sandpiper’s Ode
SANDPIPER’S ODE “All my life I have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of different countries and continents, looking for something—” Elizabeth Bishop Last week I was walking on the beach and thinking of several people in my life—in particular, a former student and now CEO—and […]
Three Wise Men
THREE WISE MEN “In Persia is the city of Saba, from which the Three Magi set out when they went to worship Jesus Christ; and in this city they are buried, in three very large and beautiful monuments, side by side. And above them there is a square building, carefully kept. The bodies are […]
Three Courage Exemplars
THREE COURAGE EXEMPLARS “Yet there was something else about the man [in the water] that kept our thoughts on him, and, which keeps our thoughts on him still. He was there, in the essential classic circumstance. Man in nature. The man in the water. For its part, nature cared nothing about the five passengers. […]