vol. 13, num. 14 :: 2014.07.11 — 2014.07.24
Sometimes they’re no fun and they hurt someone, but other times they protect us from things that might wound us. A secret spilled can be a relief or it can be a tragedy. On secrets kept and shared.
A monologue about the search for identity and belonging.
Some things are worth keeping to ourselves.
On the things we carry in late adolescence.
The mystery of a mother’s temporary disappearance.
A shotgun separation, hidden deep in the past.
A confession about the power of the written word.
On a mother’s decision to keep a family secret...for now.
On the secrets we all keep.
Samuel Biagetti takes a look at freemasonry through the lens of a Dan Brown novel.
Margo Starbuck absolves a fashionista.
Even in a country you know by heart
its hard to go the same way twice
the life of the going changes.
The chances change and make a new way.
Any tree or stone or bird
can be the bud of a new direction. The
natural correction is to make intent
of accident. To get back before dark
is the art of going.
Wendell Berry
“Traveling at Home” from Traveling at Home
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