Sam Harrelson

Words cannot express the sadness in the Hammond community this weekend over the loss of Eric Layer…
http://www.caringbridge.org/sc/ericlayer/
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/sports/14457814.htm
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/14463819.htm
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Anna and I have just returned from the Hammond 8th Grade Washington trip.  Needless to say, after five days with seventy 14 year olds and six other worn-out adults we are completely exhausted.
Overall, the trip went well.  We saw an incredible amount of sites, museums and memorials over the five days (including one day in [...]

This fall, it looks as if I’ll be returning to school at UNC Asheville.  Although a top rated public liberal arts school, UNCA is not a bastion of PhD programs in liberal arts related areas.  While that could be bad news for someone as devoted to the humanities as I am on my resume, I [...]

My favorite poem of all time. It changed my life the first time I read it, and continues to do so…
When I heard the learned astronomer,
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,
When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them,
When I sitting heard the astronomer [...]

One of my new favorite poems from one of my favorite poets…
Looking up at the stars, I know quite well
That, for all they care, I can go to hell,
But on earth indifference is the least
We have to dread from man or beast.
How should we like it were stars to burn
With a passion for us [...]

After two weeks of painful searching for our house in Asheville, we’ve finally found one!

We just received a call from our agent that the other folks accepted our bid, and we’re signing papers today on a great old home in East A’ville.  Fig trees, blueberry bushes, oak trees, cherry trees, lots of stone, two fireplaces, [...]

Light (an electromagnetic phenomenon) is a fascinating paradox of color, human sensory perception and interpretation…
Locality
You puzzled me with refraction,
                        (the bending of your hair in light)

      causing
me to look the wrong way
for your root cause.

You spoke to me from heaven
           [...]

Here is the delayed sixth part of Magnets Open All the Same.  Hagia Sophia meets western eyes…
Tree of life and candy bugs eat
bright Allah lanterns.

Light shining through the windows
point forward to the cracked cup sink of eternal cream plaster and still
life artwork.

Ropes reach down and
impale us to climb up to the terrestrial [...]