Art and thoughts by Roger Vincent Jasaitis

This Speaks My Mind

  • Transition

    Transition Too long and quickly have I lived to vow The woe that stretches me shall never wane, Too often seen the end of endless pain To swear that peace no more shall cool my brow. I know, I know- again the shriveled bough Will burgeon sweetly in the gentle rain, And these hard lands…

  • Barbarous Ancestors

    Which President said this?? Obama? Reagan? Lincoln? Guess again! “Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence and deem them like the arc of the covenant, too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment. I knew…

  • Healthcare Rights

  • Misunderstanding Forgiveness

    Originally posted on The Quietist Quaker: I have been wrestling with forgiveness this week.  To be honest, I have been wrestling with forgiveness for twenty years, but the murders in Charleston this week brought the old tension to the fore.  I too have suffered the loss of a family member by brutal murder, and like…

  • Silent Summer

    What is wrong with this picture? I looked out at a field of blooming clover and was struck by what I did not see…bees. No honeybees, no bumblebees, no wild bees of any species. No buzzing…silence but for the songbirds in the nearby trees. What is wrong with this picture? This from an NBC article: Honeybees…