Contradictions in Cherokee
Last week we went over to Cherokee for the 16th Annual Trail of Tears Association Conference at the Cherokee Casino-Hotel. Cherokee is now effectively two towns – the traditional tribal offices, museum, fairgrounds, and craft shops; and the casino-dominated buildings and motels to the east. What echoes in my memory is the cacophony of contradictions [...]
Losing a House, Losing a World
Our life has been a little disrupted this past ten days because climate change has become more personal than ever. Our son Eric, who has lived in the New York area for some 25 years, lost his house near Danbury, Connecticut, to a large oak tree that split it in half during a violent tornadic [...]
Crossings
As I have witnessed the courage of people trying to cross over into another era in the Arab world, a few lines coalesced and emerged as the following poem, which I share for your own reflection. It speaks not only to these momentous political crossings, but to the thousands of crossings we dare in our [...]
A Late Valentine
Absorbed by the political revolutions of the past weeks, I neglected to share a poem about the revolution of the heart that we celebrate each February. Here, for your enjoyment, is one that birthed a few days ago. If I could stand outside our love and choose her once again, my feet afloat on air, [...]
keep looking »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.