A Selection from Seasons of Contemplation: A Book of Midnight Meditations Who are we without our influencers; without our addictions; without our media-induced hungers? So often the voices we hear echoing in our mind are not our own but that of our...
An excerpt from Fleeting Moments of Fierce Clarity: Journal of a New England Poet Sparks from the fire were cast into the sky— for a moment able to live as red stars of the Milky Way. The balance tips and we pass into the darkness....
Sturbridge, Massuchusetts Publick House Est. 1770, December 2010 “Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. ” —Louisa May Alcott, Little Women Early December is by far my...
The following is featured in the spring 2015 edition of The Wayfarer. “Simplify. Simplify.” –Henry David Thoreau Thoreau’s celebrated urging has become a modern necessity. Now more than ever, we must fight to preserve our...
As readers, we live vicariously through the adventurers of our generation. We read the chronicles of those who left the comforts of home to strike out into the untamed and unknown, and through absorbing their experiences we are emboldened to heed our own yearnings for...
