Templar Edification

Betsy Arakawa and Gene Hackman at the Academy Awards in 1989. Credit...Ralph Dominguez/MediaPunch/IPX, via AP Please, each Sir Knight & Companion, be cognizant of our keepers, our bonds with others, our care takers, our care givers, we all have them to what extent we need them. Please raise awareness where you notice gaps or a vacuum perhaps due to a recent change in status or situation that may be challenging to communicate. Be aware of the lifelines in your families lives or an unplanned lack thereof. Renew the spirit of being neighborly, remain aware, vigilant and communicative, and flexible. ----------------------------------------------------------- There is a memorable portraiture of Mr. Gene Hackman’s ancient Science, Rhetoric, that parallels how we live as Mason’s. Nurturing a small town group of basketball players in “Hoosiers”, we see the emotional influence upon youth being subjected to big city venues, akin to realizing ourselves, all can relate to the feeling of being ...

I have a melancholic disposition. I don’t mean that in the modern sense of sad and vaguely depressing, but in the medieval sense of melancholic as introverted and thoughtful. Rowling readers might term it Ravenclaw. Books have been my portals to worlds of endless learning ever since my youth, and when silence seeps into my bones it provides to me a wondrous rejuvenation. My grandparents’ property abutted an old church and graveyard, ancient by American standards, with headstones dating back to the 1600s. We used to take walks amongst the monuments, deciphering their weathered engravings, some fallen over like loosened teeth. We would read the inscriptions and imagine their stories. My grandparents rest there now too. I’ve always been drawn to liminal spaces, those borderlands betwixt past and present, man and nature, Christian and pagan, life and death. Autumn of course is perfect for that, with holidays like Halloween. I never was much of a hunter myself, but I understand why people l...