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December 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #13

Who made it?

December 2021 | Issue #13

With “Traveling through the Vanishing Point” by Christina Hutchins

“Another Travelin’ Song” by Bright Eyes.

With “Breathing Exercises” by Carlene Gadapee

“Tibetan Gong and Bowl Sounds” by 3ARTES.
“Just Breathe” by Pearl Jam.

With “The Delicate Periphery of Your Crime” by Deanna Benjamin

“Mama Tried” by Reina del Cid.

Acknowledgments

1961 Sears ad via Daily Mail.

Road through desert background image by mark-weaver at Pixabay.

Leaf skeleton background image by Illuvis at Pixabay.

Eight of Swords, 1909 Rider-Waite tarot deck, via Wikipedia.

Distorted fingerprint background image by stux at Pixabay. (Photoshopped by Cheryl Wilder.)

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November 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

From the Editors | Issue #12

November 2021

From the Editors

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. — Maya Angelou

The leaves have mostly dropped. We’re rummaging for scarves and gloves while a shade or two of melancholy settles into the day’s gaps. The perfect framing, we think, for three sad-sweet pieces about connecting, somehow, through a disconnect. In Peggy Hammond’s piece, the mystery caller’s number is blocked… but the need and hope come through. Madeleine Mysko’s revelation of shared vision between a mother and her grown daughter both startles and soothes. And Kate Senecal’s loyal guard dog stands in for who’s missing and what’s not being said. Easy or fraught, brief or enduring, simple or complicated—it’s a meditation on human connection, this issue. We’re particularly happy to share it now, before the holiday season, in these few weeks of autumn quiet. 

—Claire, Suzanne, Cheryl


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November 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #12

Who made it?

November 2021 | Issue #12

With “It’s Possible My Number Once Belonged to Your Deceased Loved One” by Peggy Hammond

Head I by William Utermohlen. From a series of self-portraits after the artist was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease.
Detachment from Reality by Fanatic Studio/Gary Waters/Science Photo Library.

With “Dream Babies” by Madeleine Mysko

Baby (Cradle), 1917/1918, oil on canvas, 110.9 x 110.4 cm, by Gustav Klimt.
Springtime, oil on canvas, 80.6 x 97.8 cm, by Maurice Denis.
chikd's  purpole handprints on white paper with blue square sponge shapes
Finger and sponge painting by Josiah Smith.

With “Nina Simone” by Kate Senecal

“Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood” by Nina Simone.

Acknowledgments

Global communications, conceptual illustration background image by SERGII IAREMENKO / SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY.

Rock formation background image via Pikist.

Vintage photo of child and pitbull via adoptapet.com.

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October 1, 2021 By Cheryl Wilder

Who made it? Issue #11

Who made it?

October 2021 | Issue #11

With “City Cancels 4th of July” by Sherre Vernon

Harmonica Improvisation in E Flat on the 4th of July by James Dalton Jr.

With “Philosophy of the Dance” by Brooke Middlebrook

Ballet Rotoscope by Euphrates.
Dancers, pastel on paper, 75 x 73 cm, by Edgar Degas.

With “Philippines, 1973” by Laine Harrington

“Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” by Sara Bareilles.

Acknowledgments

Photo of fireworks by Twdragon via Wikicommons.

Background of chain link fence by Free-Photos at Pixabay.

Photo of en pointe foot x-ray from the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World at Brown University.

Photo of bus and motorcycle by Antonella Vilardo at Unsplash.

Background photo of Balatero port from above by Jules Bss at Unsplash.

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