by Dr. David Fialk, Editor / Publisher

This week my neighbor's house alarm has been going off randomly. Its siren sounds, very loudly, an appalling, stress-inducing waffling wail directly down my little dead end, penetrating, bricks and mortar and soul.

Sitting here before my computer, my nervous system violated, suffering post-traumatic stress, I'm in a good space to do some "homework" given me eight days ago by Samadhi, the woman who runs the Family Constellation session I attended.

My first remembrance of the Holocaust was, as a boy, staring at the concentration camp numbers tattooed to the inner forearm of my Hebrew school teacher. When days were warm, Cantor Fishman would roll up his sleeves and sometimes, very briefly, fall asleep.

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by Natalie Taylor, photos: Jack Paulus

She ran away from her parents at 12 and became a prostitute in Alexandria. After 17 years she converted, and retired to the desert to live the life of an ascetic. She represents fallen women—like Mary Magdalene—who changed their lives after finding religion.

When the wheels of the carriage struck him in the head, he lay immobile on the ground bleeding profusely from nose, mouth and ears.

The entire chapel is filled with opulent decorations. The lavish gold on the altar, on the capitals of the columns, in the enclosures, and on the statues is impressive.

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An ordinary task can become a dance, a moment of transformation.

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by Stephen Goodfellow

There is something stirringly caffinating at having two dogs wishing to greet you in every new day with the same unbridled artless energy, as if you have stepped off a ship after a long voyage.

I like working in three seperate colors, scribbling away on my laptop with what most resembles a wood cutting tool. It's like smoking, it’s a drug; I can't give it up.

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