For Bob MacLaughlin

Posted on October 1, 2007 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

Yesterday we celebrated Bob’s 60th Birthday. He was given a few hours leave from the hospital–complications from established cancer. But we rem...

Spirituality

Life’s certain pain

Posted on September 26, 2007 by stephen t berg / 2 Comments

Yesterday during a few stolen moments I had read poetry. Yesterday, before I heard the news of the freak death of the son of old friends, I had read this poem: ...

Beauty/Spirituality

Mortality Occupied

Posted on September 20, 2007 by stephen t berg / 3 Comments

Poets always offer perspective. Maybe it’s the autumn leaves but this ancient Hebrew stanza laid me out again. All flesh is like grassand all its glo...

Freedom/Spirituality

Divine Wing-shadow

Posted on September 10, 2007 by stephen t berg / 0 Comment

Walking in the predawn this morning, the signs of fall of hidden from view, you could have thought you were entering early summer. The slow warm breeze anticipa...