It was lovely out in the country. Summer had come; the wheat in the fields…
Category: Literature
For more than thirty years, I spent at least part of almost every summer in…
It is the rainy season in Beersheba, Israel, where I live. After the long, hot,…
In his essay, “Circles,” Ralph Waldo Emerson, the 19th-century American lecturer, poet, and philosopher, wrote:…
In Chapter 3 of The Voyage of the Beagle, Charles Darwin describes his work identifying…
This past weekend, I visited, for the first time, a tropical rainforest, one near San…
I was eleven years old when my mother enrolled me in the Boy Scouts of…
Do you believe in ghosts, shades, spirits? Do you think you have a soul that…
Many times, so it seems to me, we feel as if our generation was the…
Gershon Ben-Avraham 