Desert Beauty
Posted on | May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment
Where water hides divorced from shimmering air,
and plants stand sentinel within unbounded space,…
[the remainder is deleted, because the poem is under submission.]
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William J. Everett
In my teaching career I authored eight books and numerous articles in social ethics and religion. After over thirty years of academic work — in Germany, India, and South Africa as well as in the United States — I wanted to turn my hand to a poetically written novel to probe the issues of ecological and human reconciliation.
When I am not writing, I create furniture for worship settings. For more about my work, go to www.WisdomsTable.net, where you will also find galleries of artwork by my wife Sylvia, whose ancestors were the original inspiration for Red Clay, Blood River. READ MORE...
Red Clay Blood River
Red Clay, Blood River is a story told by Earth about two brothers from Germany and an enslaved South African woman whose lives bind together America’s “Trail of Tears” and South Africa’s simultaneous “Great Trek” of 1838.
July 6th, 2010 @ 10:12 pm
I will soon be taking part in a four-day Spiritual Director’s Retreat in Tucson, AZ on Desert Spirituality. This poem is prompting me to be sure and embrace all of it while I’m there.
Blessings Bill.
Steve and Lynne Overall