Dick Staub interviewed the great Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail during the IAM conference in New York earlier this year (2008). Micheal was educated at Trinity College Dublin, and the University of Oslo. A full-time writer, he has published twelve collections of poetry. He was awarded an Irish American 55
With the release of Joshua Tree, U2 reached rock fame. But more significantly, perhaps, BONO emerged as a prophetic voice in culture and in the church. He once said of his Christian faith: It is what gives me the strength to get up every day and put forth a hundred percent of my energy.” Bono’s influence on faith and culture has been 55
What do humans do on a rainy Sunday afternoon? Staring across the marsh, its surface battered and pummeled by rain, looking over the berm towards the choppy waters of the Strait of Georgia where it feeds into Rosario Strait off the northern tip of Orcas Island, it occurs to me that I have no reason not to 55
It’s been twenty-five years since I left behind my Eastern, mystical world-view ” hatched in the 1960’s and practiced for fifteen years into the early 80’s. This sojourn included a time in India and twelve years of being a disciple of the Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba, as well as many other aspects of religious and philosophical searching. My former perspective on life and the world was formed in the 60’s atmosphere ” which included a strong sense of things ending: the world on the eve of destruction; the heroes falling (or being felled); the sense that 55
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