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Dec 21 — Winter Solstice 5th O Antiphon “O Oriens” At Detroit’s latitude we will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, 14 hours and 57 minutes of night time. Our shortest day. Today’s O Antiphon, “O Oriens” (“O … Continue reading →

“God never made an ugly landscape. All that the sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.” ~John Muir Wednesday, September 9 Classes are no longer just beginning.  Students and faculty have begun to settle, be glad … Continue reading →

Monday, August 31  –  “  . . .  How big is my heart, I wonder?” I’d looked at two or three poems before this one ran into me.  Bam!  So precise, so demanding.   When this poem met me, it … Continue reading →

Monday May 18 – “Let no one touch this gentle sun  —   In whose dark eye  —  Someone is awake.” A weekly selection of 7 poems, from “A Year of Being Here,” confronted me this morning with a short demanding … Continue reading →

Friday March 13 “Next time I’ll move like cautious sunlight, open the door by fractions, eavesdrop peacefully.”                            Denise Leverov In these few days at the end of mid-week March, the Detroit Institute of Arts opens its exhibit, “Diego Rivera/Frida … Continue reading →

Monday February 23  A blizzard in Denver I spent this past weekend with 5 UDM faculty in Denver at the 2015 Heartland-Delta Faculty Conversations Weekend.  The five?  (Walter Lim: dentistry 13th year;  Amy Dereczyk: Physician Assistant Director 8 years;  Renady … Continue reading →

Sunday  December 21 – “ to those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death.” At Detroit’s latitude we will have 9 hours and 3 minutes of daylight, 14 hours and 57 minutes of night time.  Our shortest day.   Today’s … Continue reading →

Thursday December 18 I am writing today’s post by candle & oil lamp light as DTE takes the first steps toward a renovation of UDM’s McNichols electrical infrastructure.  When power goes out,  the building goes quiet — no compressors,  no … Continue reading →

Friday, October 31 –  “Trust that your hands will know the right thing to do even when you do not.” End of the work week,  end of October,  still autumn but heading in winter’s direction.   Today’s post comes  from … Continue reading →

Friday, the 8th of August I don’t know where these two notes came from.   When did I come across Herman Melville’s note to Nathaniel Hawthorne?  Decades ago, that’s for sure, when I fell in love with the snap and … Continue reading →