Ojo Del Lago

I See Things   The two of blue is one and the light in the right has gone The day no longer exists to cast long shadows So I hold onto the memory of beauty that it did see And hence the left it holds the key To focus not on thee But things that

Front Row Center By Michael Warren The Dixie Swim ClubBy Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie WootenDirected by Barbara Clippinger   These authors worked together on TV’s “Golden Girls” and there is a sitcom quality about the cute one-liners in this play about female friendship. The five characters came together as members of the college swim

Red Bird     A red bird sits alone on a branch, he sits alone, he does not sing. It is a moment lost in time black branch blue sky red bird. There is no fruit upon the branch, only a cankered pod a knot of wood and a bright red bird who sits alone

Letters to the Editor   Dear Sir: In the latest issue of Ojo Del Lago I read yet another biased political piece by Marita Noon. (Keystone Pipeline). I presume your magazine is not a political publication so therefore why is there no alternative viewpoint to hers? Her latest piece is full of half truths which

Hearts at Work A Column by Jim Tipton “To Be a Fool”   Issac Bashevis Singer, winner of the 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature, includes in The Collected Stories, the charming tale, “The Spinoza of Market Street.” Dr. Nahum Fischelson, a scholar and son of “the late Rabbi of Tishjevitz,” lives alone in a garret

Child Of The Month By Rich Petersen Mario de Jesús M. O.   Because this little guy has made such amazing progress in the past three years, we at Programa pro Niños Incapacitados del Lago want to update you on his status and well being. Although from the photo Mario would appear to not be

Laundry   Strung out, stretched, securely pinned, Wriggling, squirming in the wind. I on hammock beneath clouds and blue sky, Idly ponder the question why Should captured laundry hung out to dry, Remind me of ancestors long gone by, Who, washing and scrubbing, engaged in that chore, Will always link women of nowadays and yore.

IN MEMORIAM—Anita Corinne Henry—   Anita Corinne Henry passed away March 31 in Ajijic, Mexico. She was born December 8, 1945 in Missouri to Joseph Milton Henry and Emily Elizabeth Lyle Henry. Anita attended Clarksville High School and received a BA and a MA from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and a PhD from Indiana

I’ll Tell You My Dream If… By Liz Larrabee   How could I forget? I’m laying flat on nothing…a “bed” of bright light surrounded by blinding light walls as if a million watts of sunbeams had exploded all at once. A transparent figure appears at my feet. I’m frightened. The apparition speaks in a soft