Summer’s Lease Hath All Too Short a Date
Mev Puleo Died at age 32 May her memory be a blessing Dan Horkheimer Died at age 29 May his memory be a blessing Pete Mosher Died at age 32 May his memory be a…
Author: Mark J. Chmiel
Share the Wealth: A Summer in Nicaragua, with Annelise Feder and Erin Twiehaus
Our next Share the Wealth will be this Saturday evening. Join us as we hear stories of accompaniment in Nicaragua from SLU undergrads Annelise Feder and Erin Twiehaus. They will share their experiences this past…
It’s Randa’s Birthday!
What a bright light you are (always have been)! How many of us are drawn to you (goodness is so alluring)! May you have decades more of birthdays (this wounded world needs you)!
An Unbelievable Outgoingness of Heart
Two times In the 90 minutes After Pete was coded Eileen said to me In the ICU “I’m so sorry you have to see all this”
How the Powerful Talk Amongst Themselves
President Richard Nixon: “We’ve got to be thinking in terms of an all-out bombing attack [of North Vietnam]…Now, by all-out bombing attack, I am thinking about things that go far beyond…I’m thinking of the dikes,…
Would You Say Something About Old Age by Nicanor Parra
WOULD YOU SAY SOMETHING ABOUT OLD AGE His students once asked Of Dr. Bertrand Russell & the venerable elder replied: Old age… A time like any other For fighting for a cause that’s just –Chliean…
In Praise of Fairuz
While on my walk The soft, tender voice of Fairuz was borne to me on the breeze As if coming from an ethereal howdah: “One day we shall return to our neighborhood….” Fairuz’s voice, in…
A New Journal for a New Year
My friend Emily Guck sent me the following… Today is a day for a new journal. I’ll remember these words as I seek to fill it this year–Thanks, Dr. C! “Dear Emily- When the time…
Share the Wealth: Soldiers’ Stories
There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you. -Zora Neale Hurston Last July at Fatimas’s, Chris Wallach did a Share the Wealth on her father’s experiences in World War II. She read…