catapult magazine

vol. 11, num. 15 :: 2012.07.20 — 2012.08.02

There's an infinitely interesting relationship between place and imagination. How has our work, art, leisure, storytelling and eating been shaped by the places in which we live--and how have these activities shaped our places? What about our hopes and fears?

Feature

All who enter here

by Tamara Murphy

Unearthing the memories of love and loss contained in the family cabin.

Seeing our seeing

by Len Hjalmarson

A case for a shift in how believers perceive their home.

Editorial

Imagining rain

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

Preparing for the third annual Huss Future Festival in the middle of a record-breaking drought.

Articles

Places, spaces and landscapes of home

by Ali Jacobs

Wrestling with belonging between the lure of two continents.

Reading vs. Alton City

by Andrew Kachel

Comparing perceptions of a struggling hometown shared with John Updike.

Working the streets

by Gary A. Chorpenning

Reflecting on the risk not taken, 25 years later.

I never imagined

by Nina Bartelt Lanctot

Oh, the places we have been and the things we have done...

My own time

by Joye Briggs

Giving thanks for the opportunity of commuting.

After the garden

by Richard Sowienski

Considering the ripple effects of a formative move in elementary school.

Connoisseurship and the art of moving

by Deborah Leiter Nyabuti

What questions should we be asking of a potential new place ... and perhaps of ourselves?

Pizza Friday

by Fred Jones

How a simple ritual became a centering necessity across 15 years and places.

Gallery

In case you missed it the first time

Fishing

by Christopher Nonhof

A place is intimately connected with the memory of a grandmother.

Healing place: a sketch

by Kirstin Vander Giessen-Reitsma

A reflection on lives intersecting in unexpected spaces.

Ten odd and wondrous things our family has seen this year within a block of our house

by Christopher Smith

Under the influence of urban naturalism, an inner-city neighborhood can be a wonder-full place.

Weaving the web

Edens everywhere

Killing the Buddha

Brook Wilensky-Lanford writes on the insatiable search for the paradise we lost, and keep losing.

There and back again

Art House America

Sara Braud on fighting to live in the city before moving back to a small town.

daily asterisk

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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