Winter 2012 Newsletter

I’m currently reading a book, Four Seasons in Rome, by Anthony Doerr, about a family that spends a year in Rome with their newborn twins. The book relates current and historical Rome, and I’m always fascinated by that time connection. But what I’m continually relating to is the author’s awareness of time and place

This year has been a difficult one and I’m sure you feel it too. There has been and continues to be a destructive pandemic which has killed over 1.6 million people worldwide and more than 304,000 in the United States as of this writing.

Many years ago I was fascinated by the I Ching, an ancient Chinese philosophical text considered a guide to an ethical life, and an oracle of one’s personal future. It was fun.