by Drick Boyd | Jan 26, 2019 | Featured
Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be returned to you a thousand times. Whatever your life may become, these books — of this I am certain — will weave through the web of...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 19, 2019 | Featured
I want to pay tribute to the poet Mary Oliver, who died this last Thursday (January 17, 2019) at the age of 83. However, words do not do justice to her life or work, even though her life and work were best known in words, her words of poetry. I had not heard of her...
by Drick Boyd | Jan 4, 2019 | Featured
Live for a while in the books you love. Learn from them what is worth learning, but above all love them. This love will be returned to you a thousand times.Whatever your life may become, these books — of this I am certain — will weave through the web of...
by Drick Boyd | Dec 15, 2018 | Featured
What Thomas Berry Saw Thirty Years Ago Fr. Thomas Berry, was a priest in the Passionate Order and for twenty years the director of Riverdale Center of Religious Research along the Hudson River. In 1988 he wrote the first of five books on the role of faith in caring...
by Drick Boyd | Dec 3, 2018 | Featured
I am a lover of books. Books are not just a means to end, they are part of my story. So beginning with this entry, I will begin a series called The Books That Shaped My Life. The early 20th century poet Rainer Rilke wrote: Live for a while in the books you love. Learn...
by Drick Boyd | Nov 3, 2018 | Featured
DESCRIPTION: While there are many reasons to be discouraged about this fall’s elections and to not bother to vote, I offer three reasons I choose to vote: I am an internationalist; government’s job is to defend the poor, and out of necessity I live and...
