

I developed a teen age crush on Ralph Waldo Emerson-thought we had a cosmic connection because I went to Emerson Jr. High.  As an adult I named my 25 pound black cat “Waldo” to pay homage to this philosopher and poet.  His belief that we can live at a level more deeply than the material world around us has always struck a chord of truth with me.


While Emerson was traipsing around in the woods of the Northeastern US, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, was in France  thinking up his own idea about our physical selves achieving spiritual experience.