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Winter Concert

From the December 2011 Print Edition

At St. Progressive University We toil to demonstrate diversity. Before our concert, let me tell you how We come to sing of winter solstice now Instead of Christmas as we did until Three students asked that ash tree Yggdrasil Be raised beside each lighted Christmas tree To show respect to Norse . . . . Continue Reading »

If All Is Relative

From the Aug/Sept 2009 Print Edition

An interrogative: If all is relative, And truth (like time and space) Has no fixed thought or place Where God has said, “Be still,” Why can’t I simply will That truth be as it seems In all my ego-schemes? So, spinning on my heel, I’ll deem this cosmic wheel- The whole, not . . . . Continue Reading »