catapult magazine
vol. 12, num. 1 :: 2013.01.04 — 2013.01.17
Our annual feast of lists on a wide range of topics, spanning the past year, the past ten years or a lifetime of learning and being.
Feature
Ten lies artists tell themselves
An art director and illustrator speaks to fellow artists from experience.
Editorial
Near ... far!
Ten reasons to support *cino from wherever you are.
Articles
Ten foods and flavors
Chronicling the culinary adventures of 2012.
Ten things I experienced in 2012
Reflections on changing, adapting and continuing forward.
Curve ahead: Ten ways to slow down
Reflecting at the beginning of a new year on growing older with grace.
Ten ways to savor your time in 2013
Advice from a pastor, writer and mother of three.
Ten “spacious” things from 2012
Recounting some of the year’s most hopeful, creative, generous, adventurous, expectant...
Ready for anything: Ten practices for preparation
A post-crisis reflection on getting things in order.
Ten things about my mom
Remembering the character of a nurturer.
Ten things I wish I knew 11 years ago
Or: Sarah’s marriage advice.
Ten things I’ve learned from playing board games
Life lessons, including a top ten list of family board games.
Reviews
Forget ten things -- what about 1,000?
A review of the audiobook One Thousand Gifts by Ann Voskamp.
Ten books, past and present
Short reviews of C.S. Lewis, Chesterton, Wodehouse and more.
In case you missed it the first time
Ten things I used to believe
A challenging year shifts beliefs in some important ways.
Ten reasons I believe in God ... and the devil, too
Naming the evidence, large and small.
Weaving the web
Writers pick their favorite books
A website devoted to contemporary authors and their favorite books
The Hundred Best Lists of All Time
Gary Belsky from The New Yorker gives a list of his 100 favorite lists
Ten Commandments 'tablets' fetch £40,000
James Hall reports that the Charlton Heston’s fake stone ‘tablets’ of the ten commandments (perhaps the most famous “ten things”) have sold in an auction of film memorabilia for almost £40,000.
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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