Archive for April, 2007

Emerson and That Whole Crowd

Sunday, April 15th, 2007

Transcendentalism is being noticed again these days. Not as much as Anna Nichol Simpson’s daughter, Don Imus, or Sunjaya Malakar, but a new book did come out last fall about Ralph Waldo Emerson and that whole crowd called American Bloomsbury, written by Susan Cheever, a writer already known to many for her earlier books. [...]

Easter Homily

Sunday, April 8th, 2007

Is there something you want to do,
maybe not today,
but maybe some time soon,
or maybe only eventually, by and by,
maybe something big,
big as a tree is big,
big like learning to play the French horn,
or getting really good at math,
or becoming a nurse or a writer or someone who builds houses?Is there some hope that has woken [...]