Dear Friend and Reader: I TRAVELED back to the United States from Europe on Thursday to be in New Paltz for the dorms opening. After a six-hour scheduled layover, my flght was delayed in Dublin because a terrorism scare held the equipment up in Spain while it was being searched for a hoax bomb. I got … Read more
“If you smile at me I will understand, that is something everybody everywhere does in the same language.” — from the song “Wooden Ships,” performed at Woodstock Dear Friend and Reader: THIS WEEK is the 38th anniversary of Woodstock festival that occurred the summer of 1969. At the peak of the Vietnam War, nearly … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: I TRUST that the Leo New Moon has helped you turn a page of your life. If you were born in the late 1940s and some of the 1950s, the New Moon was close to your natal Pluto, the planet of evolution, soul and moving your life from within. For those … Read more
Dear Friend and Reader: When that bridge collapsed in Minneapolis last week, it was more than a symbol of America’s national infrastructure crumbling — it was the real thing. There were miracles (the school bus full of kids that didn’t explode) and there are warnings (much of the infrastructure of the United States is the … Read more
Aries (March 20-April 19) What is history? What value does the past possess? Ask yourself these questions now, and you’ll finally gain an understanding of how the past and the present relate to one another. There comes a point where everything in life is an attempt to get something old right. Then there comes a time when we need to … Read more