Time Experience Thoughts

Our recent book, Discoveries in Chiasmus: A Pattern in All Things, is now available at Deseret Book in addition to Amazon.com. See links here: http://deseretbook.com/Discoveries-Chiasmus-2nd-Edition-Yvonne-Bent/i/5098976. And here: http://www.amazon.com/Discoveries-Chiasmus-Pattern-Things-Edition/dp/1937735109 A couple of years ago Yvonne Bent invited me, among others, to be one of the speakers at a conference she organized on chiasmus . She and I have subsequently edited the proceedings into this new Second Edition. We added a Bio on each author, an Index, and improved the formatting for ease of reading. "This book is a compilation or anthology of the some of the best and most current research on Chiasmus. Each of these author/presenters includes a powerful and unique perspective comprising the separate chapters of the book. "Chiasmus, once assumed to be only an ancient Hebraic literary pattern, can be shown to provide a pattern in all things. It has been identifie...

The following quote is taken from an article reporting on a conference held at the American Heritage School in American Fork, Utah on Saturday, Sept. 18, 2010. The conference was titled, Discoveries in Chiamus: A Pattern in All Things.* I was one of the presenters. Here's how I was quoted: Scott Vanatter said chiasmus follows a set thematic pattern called "Davidic Chiasmus and Parallelisms" after King David who was a symbol of Christ. Vanatter overlaid this particular pattern on a wide range of literature from the Declaration of Independence, Gettysburg Address and Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream Speech" to Mormon sacramental prayers, the King Follett Discourse of Joseph Smith and the LDS Church's "The Family: A Proclamation to the World." "Chiasmus speaks to the reader," Vanatter said, " … whether they have awareness of these patterns or not." (See the Deseret News here, http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70006663...

Becky and I will be in Utah this weekend. I’ve been invited to speak at a conference: “Discoveries in Chiasmus.”* See conference website, http://discoveriesinchiasmus.com. The conference is being held Saturday, September 18, 2010 at the American Heritage School, 736 North 1100 East, American Fork, UT from 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Tickets are $35; I’ve got a handful of complimentary tickets for the conference and a few more for the concert that night.) The conference concludes with a concert that evening at 7:00 p.m. We’ll be arriving in SLC late Friday night from So Cal. (We’ll be in the LA area for my Aunt’s funeral). We’re returning home to Virginia Sunday evening. Wish we could stay longer in So Cal and in Utah, to visit with friends and family. *I’ll be speaking on the topic of Davidic Chiasmus and Parallelisms. See my website, www.davidicchiasmus.com, which I created I collaboration with Jared Demke (1957-2006).

Jared Demke, 1957 ~ 2006 Hallelujah, All the Time Without the slightest exaggeration, I count it as one of my life’s great blessings that Jared Demke was my friend. To paraphrase Brigham Young regarding Joseph Smith, “I feel like shouting Hallelujah, all the time, when I think that I ever knew [Jared Demke].” So thankful am I for the love and perspective of thirty years of close friendship. The Things of God For more than fifteen of those recent years, my wife and I have been privileged to have Jared stay with us in our home in northern Virginia, during his usual twice-a-year business trip to the DC area. When not visiting in person Jared and I would talk on the phone -- often. Ginger related to me that one of his friends commented that talking with Jared on the phone was like going to Disneyland. I wholeheartedly agree – the printed theme on the sign outside Disneyland is “The Happiest Place on Earth.” That’s Jared. He brought prodigious amounts of happiness and shear joy -- and ligh...