Collaboration in Time and Space
Two events involving my son Eric coalesce to begin our new year. The first involves his trans-Atlantic collaboration with my god-daughter Anja Decke to put on a multi-lingual version of his ecology musical for children, “Animal Party.” Anja’s father, Gerd Decke, is a long-time friend of fifty years who opened the door for me to [...]
A New Table
This table was commissioned by the District Superintendents of the Baltimore-Washington Conference of the United Methodist Church to honor their Bishop, John Schol. The pedestal of walnut and cherry creates a well from which waters appear in the mosaic on the top. These waters of creation and baptismal renewal contain a spiral motif symbolic of [...]
Woodchurch
A few years ago I attended the monthly meetings of the Carolina Mountain Woodturners Association in order to get oriented to the craft of turning. When I would leave of a Saturday morning Sylvia would say “Have a good time at woodchurch.” The term continues in our conversations, yielding this sprightly piece. Enjoy. [Audio clip: [...]
A Wedding and an Anniversary
June brings weddings and their reverberations in anniversaries. This year I participated in helping to plan and lead a lovely wedding for Sarah Osmer and Gabriel Vinas. Sarah we have known over many years through her parents, Rick and Sally. Gabriel, who once studied in Cape Town, has been with Sarah for some years now. [...]
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.