“Wrestle”
Like Jacob ascending the ladder, / I have wrestled with an angel. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
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“The Power of My Love Beams is Still Quite Potent”
Read by author Last night I watched my littlest fall asleep. He’d crawled into crisp white sheets still wearing his dusty play clothes. His hair smelled like dirt and grass and autumn leaves. I “tuck tucked” my way around his sleepy toddler body, pushing his blanket under his sid…
“Molecules of Minutes”
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A WORLD OF FAITH by Peggy Fletcher Stack
Peggy Fletcher Stack’s A World of Faith (BCC Press, 2023), features 32 religions of the world accompanied by Kathleen Peterson’s impeccably detailed illustrations. Like the best of children’s books, it has a lot to teach adults, too. This book is an expansion of the original edit…
“A Postcard to My Younger Self”
The image on the front? A woman weeping. She sits on the blue carpeted floor of the sparsely decorated bedroom in her first home, alone in a corner. I pick up my pen and begin, wishing I could go back and tell you — the woman sitting there — “It gets easier.” But with luck, this …
“Ode to the Back Deck”
. . . this summer, more and more, I find myself watching. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
THE HYMN OF THE PEARL by Lori Nielsen Driggs & Melissa Tshikamba
he Hymn of the Pearl is an origin story answering the questions, “Where do I come from?” and “What is my purpose on earth?”
“Life As it Is” — Interview with Gloria Pak
Over the years, I’ve learned that I am most fulfilled when my work reflects my inner values. The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
“Diary”
as a child I saw my future audience clearly in sunday school I was taught to write for all my future children and all their future children that they may know my girlmind I worked hard to sound good :: as a teenager I called it my journal I stopped saying dear in college I said n…
“Even the Turtles Are Painted”
Poised between rejection and acceptance, I have been asking the wrong question. Not “why don’t I dress up?” but rather, “how naked am I willing to be?“ The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
“Undertone”
Evening comes on. / A woman raises her hand to the sky; The full content of this post is available to subscribers. Subscribe now or log in!
Vol. 43 No. 1 — Summer 2023
The Art of Losing