Resonance, Harmony, and Creativity
As I was working on this week’s podcast, Resonance, (which you will find here) I looked up some quotations I remembered reading years ago in [...]
Dancing With a Tornado: An Easter Story, by Glenda Taylor
Today, a week after the occasion of my 80th birthday celebration, which was a Dances of Universal Peace Four Day Camp at Earthsprings Retreat Center, my heart, mind, [...]
Why Did He Do That?
"Why did he do that?" I hear that question a lot these days, about any number of so-called deviant behaviors. For most of us, answering [...]
Gendercide
A look at gendercide, the worldwide loss of females through a variety of causes, with significant consequences for the world at large. Images from an exhibit at the Toronto [...]
Ancestry: Burges in England Prior to American Colonization, Part 2
At the end of the previous segment of this manuscript, as is usual when making genealogical connections, we leaped ahead of ourselves to bring in the Burge-Bray connection. We’ll [...]
Ancestry: Some Burges In England Prior to American Colonization, by Glenda Taylor
Burges in England prior to colonization in the Americas. Burges in England prior to North American colonization include knights, barons, land holders, ordinary husbandmen, distinguished civil servants, tradesmen, a [...]
Ancestry: Burge, Burgh, Burges, Burgess in England and America
Burge, Burges, Burgess, Burgh, Burgeis, Burgis, Burgeys Burges (by any of these names) were among the earliest arrivals in the American colonies. (Spelling in the colonial days was purely phonetic [...]
Remembering “Langar” at Thanksgiving
As I am this week preparing food for the 46th annual open-house Thanksgiving pot-luck meal to be held in my home, I am remembering how a few weeks ago [...]
When a Jewish Congregation is Assaulted
In this grievous hour, I am reminded to reread George Washington’s letter to the Jewish Congregation of Newport, Rhode Island, September 9, 1790: “…May the Children of the [...]
