Most of us do not know how to live. Untrained in the art of the good life, we move forward by learning how to endure the circumstances that shape and constrain us.
The co-edited books that I have written: Part 2
At an academic conference at the University of Texas at Dallas!
Year: 2010
In my presentation, I discussed the concept of Négritude in the poetry of Léopold Sedar Senghor.
Reading List for 2026
For the new year, I am going to keep my reading list reasonable. My intention is to read the following 15 books for the year; however, based on past experience, I don’t usually succeed in reading all the books in my reading list. Hey, we have to start somewhere. Don’t you agree?
What books are you reading for the new year?
Poetry Reading #4, from “Poems of the Heart”
Happy New Year, Friends🎆🎊🎈 !
“The Year” by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
What can be said in New Year rhymes,
That’s not been said a thousand times?
The new years come, the old years go,
We know we dream, we dream we know.
We rise up laughing with the light,
We lie down weeping with the night.
We hug the world until it stings,
We curse it then and sigh for wings.
We live, we love, we woo, we wed,
We wreathe our prides, we sheet our dead.
We laugh, we weep, we hope, we fear,
And that’s the burden of a year.
From “A Poem for Every Winter Day”
drcelucienjoseph, "Thinking and Meditating" 