Author Archives: Paul John Roach

Miriam and Kapil’s Wedding

On May 1st Wendy and I will be leaving for Denver, Colorado to celebrate my daughter, Miriam’s wedding. Her fiancé, Kapil is the son of Indian parents so the ceremony(ies) will be predominately Hindu and extend over three days, including a mehndi party, music evening, special pujas as well as the wedding ceremony itself. I […]

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william-wordsworth New Though Poetry

Wordsworth a New Thought Poet

I recently wrote a paper for the Unity Institute’s Lyceum 2013 held in early April at Unity Village. My topic was the poet Wordsworth and his influence on the Transcendentalists and so to New Thought and Unity. It was the first academic paper that I’d written in quite a while but I enjoyed the process, […]

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Poetry: Rudry, Wales, 1970

Winter on the hazel mountain. Trout, under the blue bank wait. A man walks through the fog Of Christmas, to the lighted pub. In the brown dark beyond the parking lot Bracken fronds hold beads of cold condensed from the sky. Each crystal eye reflects the chilly light of passing cars returning home. A crunch […]

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