Remembering The Peace Corps By Barbara Hildt Fifty years ago in July 1968, as 22-year-old newlyweds, David Hildt and I began thirteen weeks of training to serve as Peace Corps volunteers, PCVs, with the agricultural extension service in the state of Mato Grosso (Thick Bush), Brazil. We spent the next two years living very […]
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It’s Not About The $11.52 By Sandy Olson We met for breakfast at Maquina 245 to start the interview. Mel Goldberg said,“I’ve never been interviewed before so I don’t know how this goes.” I promised to be gentle. I forgot for the moment to be intimidated about Mel’s years of teaching English and creative writing.
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Focus on Art By Rob Mohr Deborah Kruger (Fabric Artist), Turbulence – August, 2018 “The creative process is one of surrender, not control.” Julia Cameron “I don’t find art—art finds me.” Xill Fessenden, Ajijic The Bauhaus, a world changing German art and design school shut down by Hitler due to its progressive intellectual and theoretical
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The Grief Of La Llorona Easy for a mother to grasp La Llorona, despite each mean version in the myth about her motives for ‘killing’ her children. Every mother gives her children up. The child she would give her life for can never be retrieved from the river of time. Every mother becomes a
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Why Can’t Congress Be More Like A Dog? By Maggie Van Ostrand Pretty nearly everybody, including cat lovers, know what dogs are like. They greet each other by circling, touching noses, and generally giving each other the once-over until they’re satisfied with what they find and have enough information to decide whether to play
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CECIL THE LION, R.I.P.—Cruelty for Fun and Profit By Dr. Lorin Swinehart Animal lovers and environmentalists around the globe were outraged in July, 2015, by news reports of the killing of Cecil the lion, a beloved big cat who was allegedly lured from the safety of his home in Hwange National Park in Zimbabwe
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Immortality Awaits By Waights Taylor Jr. Rosa Louise McCauley Parks died on October 24, 2005, in Detroit. She was ninety-two years old. On rare occasions, the earth seems to slow on its axis or even come to a complete standstill. The death of the humble, self-effacing seamstress from Alabama brought forth one of those
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What I Learned From an “Everything” Bagel By Mark Boyer(mboyer888@gmail.com) There are some foods that are in the sacred category. They can only be purchased at certain places where they have attained a level of perfection. If you move away, you then spend your life on regular pilgrimages to those places that inspire nirvana.
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The North By Johanna Van Zanten To belong means to be accepted by those around you. The dictionary describes belonging as “to be in natural association with something”. When she is a foreigner with a strong accent dropping into an existing world as an adult—like me thirty years ago—belonging proves difficult to obtain. My
Common Scents Artists to naturegreat odes do compose,like Beethoven’s 6th,everyone knows. I go to the kitchenlook out at the treesI open the windowhear birds, feel the breeze. I sit myself downAt my worn writing desk,sharpen chewed yellow pencils,shred these reams so grotesque. I’m spent to the scrawl.for that immortal phrase.I’ve slowed to a crawlin
