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  • An Easter Reflection

    I am an old man. I have spent the greater part of my life working and traveling abroad. My life’s work in international education introduced me to the rich and vast variety of peoples in our world. From the hinterlands… Continue reading

  • Meditations on the Impermanence of Life

    Meditation l: Ozymandias by Percy B Shelley I met a traveler from an antique land,Who said—“Two vast and trunk-less legs of stone; Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand; Half sunk, a shattered visage lies,… Continue reading

  • A Favorite Poem

    Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson It little profits that an idle king, By this still hearth, among these barren crags, Match’d with an aged wife, I mete and dole Unequal laws unto a savage race, That hoard, and sleep, and… Continue reading

  • Grappling Then and Now with Demons by Seamus Cole

    This article appeared in Quadrant Online, May 19th, 2025. It is re-posted here with the kind permission of the writer, Seamus Cole, and Quadrant Online. I am increasingly reminded that what’s old is also new again” and I suspect great… Continue reading