Happy New Year! For years I’ve quietly favored changing our town’s name. Recently I encountered and signed a petition (https://www.change.org/p/rename-the-town-of-amherst-massachusetts) titled “Rename the town of Amherst Massachusetts” started by.
Recently I’ve been reading and rereading Eckhart Tolle. Tolle is a contemporary mystic who adopted Meister Eckhart’s name as his first name. Meister Eckhart was a 13th-14th century mystic in the Catholic religion who some regard as the pinnacle of.
I shouldn’t respond to a recent column’s panicky alarm that Amherst is slowly going under because of UMass and we’ll all drown in the sea of “noisy, messy, inebriated” nocturnals who belong away from “families with small children and work.
I expect former president Donald Trump to omit declaring his candidacy, skip getting nominated, bypass running and denounce the 2024 presidential election, but, in the fall of 2022, declare he has won that 2024 election and is the president-elect..
I never wanted to preach how to think about abortion. I didn’t even want to tell anyone how I thought about it. This is probably because in my early decades I vacillated. Everyone I knew and respected was pro-choice or silent. If I ever knew a woman.