catapult magazine
vol. 6, num. 24 :: 2007.12.28 — 2008.01.11
Oh, the holidays—a time when love abounds and tempers flare. Spending extended periods of time with our families can help us understand who we are now, revert us to children, inspire immense gratitude and create loads of stress…sometimes all at once. Stories of change, reconciliation, discovery and joy.
Feature
A Christmas reflection on an extraordinary life
A time of year when families traditionally gathers prompts thoughts about a mother’s identity.
Editorial
Hating my family
The times, they are a changin’ in my family and yours.
Articles
A shifting image
On family gatherings marked by new life and loss.
I've become my mother
A reflection on the super-humans we know as our parents.
Closeness and incarnation
An interactive reflection on families, intimacy and the transforming power of Christ’s birth.
Reviews
Grant’s recommendations 12.28.07
The film adaptation of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, an epic composition performed by the Kronos Quartet and an opera about the making of an atomic bomb.
Gallery
In case you missed it the first time
Navigating family history
A tradition of boating finds its current home in longing.
Death in the family
A grandmother’s stories about death and destruction warrant both laughter and love.
Unto us
Stories from personal and family history, told through the art of two manger scenes.
Prozac, Paxil, Nortriptyline--Go Noyeses!
An exploration of how prescription medication can affect quality of life for a family.
Weaving the web
Home is Where They’ll Lay Me Down
Mike Connelly on the intertwining of his family’s stories with the story of the Coho salmon.
Xmas in the Lions’ Den
A bible-inspired narrative of holidays with the girlfriend’s family by Eileen Myles.
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I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
qtd. in The Blue Sweater
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