Remembering Rachel
No one remembers Rachel. No one knows what color her eyes are. I don’t know anything about her. All I know is that she was my my mother’s younger sister. And that she was burned to death in the Concentration Continue Reading …
No American Rights for American Educators?!!
Twelve teachers in one school were accused of child abuse in this one school year. All 12 were dismissed because there were either no proof of abuse or the child retracted on their statements. The only reason I learned Continue Reading …
Are Teachers Safe from Children?
False accusations of child abuse are on the rise in schools in the USA, Canada and the UK. According to the online reports, teachers who are accused and cleared still lose their jobs or are unable to get work Continue Reading …
Enemy #1: the Hierophant
We have an enemy: the Hierophant. Huh? you say? Is that a variety of elephant? Nope. It’s an ancient archetypal visual of a person with great power due to great brilliance, wisdom and information who abuses that power. This archetypal Continue Reading …
Wild Coffee
My Garden House is has enough Wild Coffee plants to be a coffee plantation. But I am not planning to go into competition with Starbucks®. Sub-tropical Florida climate makes many tame plants wild. I’d venture to say that it even Continue Reading …
The Confusion of Mysticism
There’s no doubt that I’m a mystic. As an artist calligrapher, study of alphabetical and marked shaped symbols bolstered intuitive knowledge. I’ve read texts of the human psyche and patterns such as Carl Jung. Robert Graves came at symbols and Continue Reading …
Quikrete or Bust
Quikrete® is the designer concrete blend. The company makes everything concrete from A-Z. The linked website www.quikrete.com will prove it. My interest in Quikrete® began when I bought and installed 150 12″ x 12″ x 1″ white concrete pavers. I Continue Reading …
Getting Lost at Memphis the Musical
“Memphis” blasted rhythm and blues onto the streets of West Palm Beach. The interracial love affair was a reminder of how some laws should never have been written at all. The early 1950’s was a dangerous time in Memphis Continue Reading …
Beauty Does Not Need Blood Sacrifice
In my “Easter Rise” blog, the need for animal sacrifices as a way of alleviating one’s sin before God was made redundant by Jesus’ personal sacrifice. Neither animals nor children ever again were to be slaughtered, mutilated or tortured for Continue Reading …
Easter Rise
The Garden House was splendid this morning with the birds high up on the canopy of trees, singing good morning songs to each other and me. When my breakfast guest arrived, I greeted him with a “Good Easter”. The resulting Continue Reading …