Love and Landscape
Three poems surfaced in the last two weeks. They may seem a little overheated, fresh from the oven. I share them with you for your enjoyment and welcome comment. Artists came from Italy last night, arose from vanished studios to paint our evening sky. You know their handiwork, the puffballs floating in the azure bowl [...]
Getting to the Table
The past few months in American politics brings this reflection to the fore for your reflection and response. In 2008 a majority of Americans expressed, through their votes, a longing for a political process based on models of community cooperation and reconciliation. The politics of power bloc calculations and appeals to “bases” of unthinking support [...]
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.