The next series of blog posts will be an exploration of the poem DESIDERATA by Max Ehrmann, 1927. DESIDERATA: That which is to be desired….. GO PLACIDLY AMID THE NOISE AND HASTE, AND REMEMBER WHAT ...

Max Ehrmann (September 26, 1872 – September 9, 1945) was an American writer, poet, and attorney from Terre Haute, Indiana, widely known for his 1927 prose poem "Desiderata" (Latin: "things desired").

I was ordained on April 1, 1970. That’s right! I was ordained on April Fools Day. Perhaps you can imagine the jokes and the teasing that simple fact has prompted. Clare and I were members of Crescent ...

Then in the 1960s and ’70s, “Desiderata” popped up on posters hung in college dorm rooms and home bathrooms around the world (although it erroneously was described as a work by an unknown author and ...

The poem “Desiderata” has been celebrated — and mocked — for years because of its Woodstock-era sentiment: “Go placidly amid the noise and haste … ” Its origins have also been misunderstood, with some ...

In his poem “Desiderata,” Max Ehrmann states: “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars.” People today have come to see that they are not ’over and against’ nature, but ...

“You Are a Child of the Universe,” an art exhibit by elementary, middle and high school students from the Vigo County Public Schools, is now on display at four different venues in downtown Terre Haute ...

Someone e-mailed me a copy of "Desiderata (Things to Yearn for)." At the end of the composition were the words, "Written by a monk several hundred years ago." Some copies conclude with the statement, ...

After speaking into many aspects of human life and emotion, Max Erhman writing in his prose poem (The Desiderata’) ends it simply by saying - “whatever your labours and aspirations, in the noisy ...