Love and Pearls
Two poems emerged in the past two weeks that speak of life from the margins. I’m sure they emerge in part from my own experience but they seem to speak to more than that. I guess that’s what a poem does. To hear my reading of them, click on the audio bar. [Audio clip: view [...]
A Vedic Temple in Our Mountains
We just attended a small portion of a five-day dedication of an authentic Vedic Temple in the mountains near our home. The Sri Somesvara Temple has just been completed in a retreat community named Mount Soma near the community of Upper Crabtree, a verdant series of coves held and stewarded by generations of farmers and [...]
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O the hole in the head O the blood upon the Persian carpet O the ashes falling in the streets O the burning broken wounded flesh O the silence of the gentle voices O the dreaming lost to fear O the hole in the ground O the hole in our head. [Audio clip: view full [...]
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.