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Posted in Experiences on Dec 30th, 2005
Talk delivered by JJG before a James Madison University journalism class (14 women, one man) Monday, November 14, 2005.
This is quite a pleasure for me, talking about reporting with a group of young aspirant newspersons. The proportion of sexes is a little surprising. Don’t young men want to be newsmen any more?
Well, I was a [...]
Posted in Philosophy & Religion on Dec 24th, 2005
Presented at HUU Meeting
January 7, 1990
By James J. Geary
Wade asked me to talk, for not more than seven minutes, on my view of life after death. To do it justice I think I would need to go into my whole philosophy of being, and there is not time for that. But I’ll make [...]
Posted in Experiences on Dec 24th, 2005
The last vocation I ever thought I would be involved in is teaching. But a teacher I became — for a memorable three weeks. It was in a remote one-room school in the mountains of Montgomery county Virginia. I had about 18 students enrolled in six grades. Six of the 18 were only five years [...]
Posted in Philosophy & Religion on Dec 24th, 2005
A talk delivered by James J. Geary
before the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist congregation
15 November 1998
Good morning again, survivors! And congratulations!
We are all survivors, are we not?
(Story - not sure what was read)
So he didn’t survive. But we have — at least so far. Survival and security is the topic of this [...]
Posted in Philosophy & Religion on Dec 24th, 2005
Talk Delivered by James J. Geary before the Harrisonburg Unitarian
Universalist Church
Sunday, April 1, 2001
Centering time II (spiritual music)
[As I turned on the music, I said "April Fool." It was What a Beautiful World by Louis Armstrong When it finished, I remarked that it was not April Fool after all; that the quot;Satchmo" really [...]
Posted in Experiences on Dec 24th, 2005
I dislike shaving. I’ve learned to do it first thing in the morning (most of the time), because it is doubly difficult to go back and do it later in the day. I also do the following: I soften my beard by washing thoroughly with soap, then covering my beard for 15 or 20 seconds [...]
Posted in Philosophy & Religion on Dec 24th, 2005
(Prepared for delivery before the Harrisonburg
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship
29 March 1992)
By James J. Geary
When Beryl Lawson called me at the end of January and asked if I would put on a program March 22, and I agreed, she then asked me for a title, I was about to leave on an extended trip out-of-state, so off [...]
Posted in Experiences on Dec 24th, 2005
I remember a late winter afternoon when I experienced a strange sense of being lost that I had not experienced before, nor have I since. I was seventeen, it was during my high school year in Pittsburgh, and I was visiting with my aunt, Katherine Waddell, her husband, Herb, and their two young daughters, Ruth [...]
Posted in Philosophy & Religion on Dec 24th, 2005
A discourse delivered by James J. Geary
before the Harrisonburg Unitarian Universalist congregation
18 June 1995
Twice before, as some of you recall, I’ve talked to this group about my philosophy. The first talk was more than five years ago, the second some three years ago. Today I will talk about morality.
What? you might [...]
Posted in Places on Dec 24th, 2005
by James Jewel Geary
"Rowing, Rowing, up to the post office," my father’s Christmas letter read, addressed to "Dear Jimson." The words recalled some happy times for both of us the previous summer.
My Pittsburgh family had rented a cottage at Buckeye Lake, some 25 miles east of Columbus, Ohio, for two weeks. It was 1925, [...]
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