Alan Mitchell

You sit at the roadside watching the traffic of your life go by. Everything passes you, including yourself. Nothing is permanent. But poetry is an alchemy, which transforms experiences and memories and fixes them (through words and images) in their time and place, as the poet’s challenge to impermanence. Meer

Worlds of experience are lost in silence, but it doesn’t have to be that way.  Our lives are a story about what we have gained and lost and how we deal with mortality. Meer

Evangelium Vitae, or "The Gospel of Life," Pope John Paul II's 1995 encyclical, addresses practical moral questions that touch on the sacredness of human life: abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, and capital punishment. Meer