This fledgling robin hatched in our entranceway and is ready to fly.
This fledgling robin hatched in our entranceway and is ready to fly.
Q. What can you do with an empty cup?
A. Fill it.
In 1947, I was a twenty-year old veteran of the U. S. Naval Reserve ready to resume my college education. I enrolled at Oberlin College, as a Junior majoring in English, and became a student of Andrew Bongiorno's, who told his students he believed in God. That made a difference. He taught us literature, history, philosophy, theology, virtue, and faith, by opening our minds to the world's great poetry. He helped me learn that what I really wanted was what the Lord alone can give. Peace.
New House & Guto'r Glyn in 1492 New House & Guto'r Glyn in 1492 is a work of historical fiction, consisting of invented documents from an imaginary monastic site in southwestern Wales, supplemented by an essay on Guto'r Glyn, a 15th-century Welsh poet. To read a chapter from New House, click Gwenllian Order from www.xlibris.com/RichardLoomis.html
Newly assembled is the Complete Edition of New House. This has all the selections included in New House & Guto'r Glyn in 1492, as well as two line drawings by Urban Price; an Old Welsh riddle; the 12th-century "Testing of Cadog"; the 19th-century "Life of Elias"; and the short story, "Capel Ty Newydd." A CD recording of New House is available. This includes readings from the book by Gerald Godwin, Kathleen Godwin, and Rebecca Schmitt, together with Welsh folk songs performed by singers led by Dr. William L. Nash III. The recordings were engineered by David Hodorovic at Pyramid Recording Studio in Avoca, PA. The CD's are manufactured by Disc Makers and marketed by CD Baby at http://cdbaby.com/cd/rmloomis Anthracite Lives: From 1799 to the Present People of the anthraciate region of Northeastern Pennsylvania, including Charles Miner, Edward Eugene Loomis, Edward Griffith, Roy Morgan, and Teresa Keeley. | Poems and Essays: Surprises & After Gethsemani A memoir of life after 1945, when World War II ended, but we discovered unexpected challenges to peace. To read a note on a seventh-century monk of Northumberland, click Cuthbert Cader Idris A poem on climbing the mountain Cader Idris in Merionethshire, Wales. St. John Neumann Walks Through Miners Mills St. John Neumann (1811-60) was born in Bohemia and educated at Prague University. He sailed to Manhattan in 1836, to become a missionary in North America. He became a priest & Redemptorist missionary. He walked the rough roads of Upstate New York to bring the sacraments to new settlers, and was consecrated bishop of Philadelphia in 1852. He fostered faith and devotion in person throughout his large diocese, which included Wilkes-Barre & Scranton. A mountain chapel is preserved where he said Mass in the Endless Mountains of Northeastern Pennsylvania. He is a model of how to bring peace to America.
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Recommended Web Sites (see more at Resources):
www.vatican.va/holyfather/index.htm
Larry Behr is the originator and executive director of an effort to build a Marian shrine on the Buffalo shore: http://www.archoftriumph.org
Mother Angelica, born in Canton, Ohio, has broadcast to the world for 25 years: www.ewtn.com
For Spain in translation, Germany alive, & American memoirs, read my brother Ed, poet & infantryman.
Our son Mario and his wife Donna host a website that honors Mother Teresa and good love: www.adropofclearwater.com
For "irresistibly intellectual" Catholic commentary: http://thomistic.blogspot.com/
Jerry Williams of Carbondale, PA, president of the Lackawanna St. David's Society, promotes a positive appreciation of Northeastern Pennsylvania and recognition of Welsh pioneers in industry, art, and letters. Visit his website, www.welshnepa.org
Kathleen Godwin has launched ArtsYouniverse at 47 North Franklin Street, Wilkes-Barre: www.artsyouniverse.com
My Dad, Arthur Kirkwood Loomis, fathers me still. He encouraged my love of reading & theater.