by Jacob Turner | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
This fall, regular visitors to Madison’s Olbrich Botanical Gardens may find themselves in an unfamiliar place. As the sky trades sun for moon, strange shapes glow among the sixteen acres of carefully tended landscapes. On the path near the entrance, a massive and...
by Jane Elder | Oct 16, 2015 | Magazine Article
When the winds of change are in the air, it’s a good idea to gather one’s extended circle—especially the wisdom-keepers and those who understand our history and how it shapes these times and the future. By taking the time to come together, we can figure out what all...
by Sharon Foley | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Driving my flatbedover Nebraska back roadswhere marsh land opens uplike an ironed seam.Driving to Merton’s fishing holebeyond the aster and bottle-brushwhere we once spent afternoonsreeling in trout.I can still see your calloused handslines angled deep, wide as the...
by Molly Murphy | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Some people have been leaving too soon. Their library books still due,the gas and electric bill waitingin the bills to pay slot. Some did not even finish breakfast,get to eat any of the packed picnic lunch. During ordinary daysthey started with waking up and...
by John Pidgeon | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Where the author’s formulations challenge the reader’s credulity, I have quoted the German original in the notes. Seeing is believing. —Ralph Manheim, translator Mein Kampf There’s something to the feel of ash,it’s silkiness of residue,from which one...
by Christine Holm | Oct 15, 2015 | Magazine Article
Mothers make excuses, hardly doe-eyed but entirely well-meaning.Their daughters aren’t wayward. Simply, they misplace their sensesof direction or heighten their prospects of efficiency.Their daughters run errands, stop road-side to look at the name,dead before their...
