Lawrence Bale:
CLASS OF 1964
Hemet High SchoolClass of 1964
Hemet, CA
Lawrence's Story
Life
(Please read as written - half in jest, half in ernest)
Lawren Bale lives in Narberth, Pennsylvania with his wife Martina and their daughter Annabelle Jean Elisabeth (born 11/11/2001). The youngest of three brothers, Lawren was raised in Hemet, California and attended the University of Hawaii. He has worked in the potato fields, apricot sheds, super markets, and wilderness forests of Southern California. After completing his BA in Religious Studies (Asian) at the University of Hawaii, Lawren worked as a carpenter for a year. When he broke his leg at work, he used his workman's compensation to finance a journey to Bangkok, where he practiced meditation as a bhikkhu during 1974-75, under the guidance of Pra Thepsiddhimuni - head of Vipassana Meditation at Wat Mahadhatu, a university of the Mahanikai sect of Theravada Buddhism in Thailand.
In 1976, Bale traveled to Japan, and practiced meditation with Ten Dai Buddhists on Mt. Hiei. He then moved to Kyoto, taught English, and sold hand made leather goods of his own design (jackets, trousers & sandals), while studying Japanese culture.
In 1980, Lawren returned to graduate studies at Marquette University in Milwaukee. He was invited to study...Expand for more
with the Jesuit faculty at the Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule Sankt Georgen in Frankfurt, Germany in 1981. While living in Germany he learned to appreciate Guinness Stout and Irish pipes, and he met his wife.
Upon his return to America, Bale completed his MA at Marquette and transferred to Temple University in Philadelphia. He taught at Temple and Rutgers University, while writing his Ph.D. dissertation ("Ecology of Mind in Interreligious Dialogue"), which he completed in May 1994. In his classes, his aim was to fuse academic rigor and poetic imagination, while raising questions about war and peace, poverty, pollution, overpopulation, human sexuality, love and the environmental crisis. It is rumored that he gave easy marks. His students told him he is an exciting teacher.
Bale began writing poetry while attending the University of Hawaii, during the Vietnam War. Down 'n Out Press has printed six volumes of his verse: Prochronisms; Proto Post Modern Blues; Ecomind; Termites Tribal March & Midtown Charity Ball; Restoring the Gordian Knot; and Untangling Organic Koans. His poetry has also been published in several anthologies, the journal, "Cybernetics & Human Knowing," and on the Internet.
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