“Editorial in Spring”
This season is too full In day; this winter cannot Bear it but stifle in its Heat. No Spring from Spring […]
“Christos”
To the rocks And to the open trees, The wandering insects about their work, The circling birds and covering grasses, To the mountains tuned in their summit, And the flowers searching among new scents … […]
“Come, Spirit, let us love Together”
We were born a light within pain Reckoned in spasms of a tender night A knowledge Child from infinite origin Born bearing what came before Us - So birth found Us quiet, like peace; And twenty alive, like blood. To the bright sun I leapt a friend To grow in spurts from grass to tree [...]
The World They Made Together
Thomas Jefferson knew black people’s daily lives, aptitude and fortitude, their beliefs and courage and human warmth. He was at home with black people whether they were new to Virginia or had been born after several generations in Virginia and were integral within his conjoined families… The World They Made Together, Black and [...]
Luther Martin of Maryland & the Constitutional Convention
Luther Martin understood human nature with a genius of sheer power, foresight, and brilliance. He believed that there can be no union without subsidiarity because without it, governments run with the cyclical and typical tyrannies of humankind… Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet, The Life of Luther Martin, by Bill Kauffman (Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008) “Happiness [...]