Category Archives: Philosophy

In the Kitchen Across the Generations

*first published in the Glebe Report, Nov. 2014 My father had seven brothers and two sisters.   He was one of the youngest and when he was born my grandmother said to my grandfather, “this one doesn’t go to barn, William.  … Continue reading

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Grandfathers

We are born old and young at the same time. We are born with great loves and great pains that grow like an acorn grows into a tree like god grows into the universe I don’t think it ever occurs … Continue reading

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I find it a melancholy thing

I find  it a melancholy thing to contemplate our flag which is an astonishing thing because I belong to that generation which grew up without a national flag.  We fought to have one that was designed and made and voted … Continue reading

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