Inspiration Corner

The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor. Welcome and entertain them all! Even if they’re a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your...

Calling Upon The Muse

  What is the function of “the muse”?  Is it to amuse, confuse, use, or abuse?  Or perhaps to discover what might be true or new?  The word muse is implicit in words like “museum” (a house of knowledge), “music” and to “muse” or to ponder.   Historically,...

Hope

Definition: to cherish the outcome of desire’s good. — The Web’s Brainy Dictionary Can we really define hope? Theologists and poets through the centuries have tried. Perhaps we should accept Emily Dickinson’s enduring abstraction: Hope is the thing with feathers...