Allen Simons
Raised in Huntsville, Texas. Cloistered in the segregated south. Recieved undergraduate degree in Music Education; Graduate degree in Theology, Perkins School of Theology, SMU Dallas, Texas. Served churches in Texas and Colorado. Was a Minister of Education for many years, then adjunct professor at The Iliff School of Theology, then Director of Youth and Camping Ministry and Church Leadership Training for the Rocky Mountain Conference. Prior to retirement was pastor of the Fruita United Methodist Church in Fruita, Colorado (west of Grand Junction). Now retired and living in Grand Junction where I drive a Grand Valley Transit Bus and play.
Passions are poetry, music, religious and spiritual study, hiking, photography and and 4 wheeling. I love western Colorado. The varigated landscape of Mountains and Canyons, streams and rivers calls to something deep in my soul.
I am passionate about religion without being religious. I live on the border of doctrinal faith, seeking the connecting spiritual links between all persons..
The difference between a pilgrimage and a trip is the pilgrim’s yearning for spiritual transformation. Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters to a Young Poet are written to an aspiring poet over several years. The reader can observe gradual transformation in the young poet’s outlook and craft.
Pilgrim Cafe 
May 10, 2010 at 4:54 am
I have struggeled writing poetry but still consider it window on the soul.
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