Chronicles of the Children’s Chapel

About the Book

Chronicles of the Children's Chapel is a chaplain's memoir when for six years matters of life and death came to the fore. The time frame included September 11 and a major black-out on 14 August. Because of the centrality of a large Bible in the middle of the room, the chapel might be construed to be a Christian chapel but because of the openness of the chapel to gifts brought in by the children, large and small, the chapel assumed an ecumenical air. I shaped it and it shaped me. That is its story, a history of six years while I was there. It was the backdrop for most pastoral counseling. I was backed in my work by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and have been an Elder ordained in that Church since 1991.

About the Author

The hand of the poet is a ti me-travelling hand, creati ng symbols that cross boundaries but sti ll derive from their environment energy - Times Square, the Improv, the Red Parrot, Warren Robertson’s Theatre Workshop, The Delegate’s Lounge - and so it is appropriate that the poet’s photo-portrait may be 20 or 30 years old smiling at ti me. Across the street from where I live is the sign “Twenti eth Century Garage” catapulti ng me back in ti me to the century of my birth. Locati on: Lenox Hill Hospital. All the details of one’s life being sati sfactual, yet through re-arrangement poeti cally one comes up with a diff erent design.