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On Earth Day: Poetry Embracing Science
I was shocked—an editor had just told me that poetry had no place in science books! This young man had been assigned by the publisher to shepherd my completed work-for-hire, about watersheds for middle school readers, into print. The poetry … Continue reading
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Tagged A Place in Space:: Ethics Aesthetics and Watersheds, Anna Dumont, Beckie Prange, Beth Krommes, Butterfly Eyes and Other Secrets of the Meadow, Cathie, Cathie Felstead, Chris Brubeck, Christopher Wormell, Convergence, Damia Lewis, Dirt: The Scoop on Soil, e.e. cummings, Earth Day, Earthshake: Poems from the Ground Up, Frederica von Stade, Gary Snyder, J. Patrick Lewis, Joyce Sidman, Light: Shadows Mirrors and Rainbows, Lisa Westberg Peters, Matthew John, Patty Schlutt, picture books, poetry, River of Song, River of Words: Young Poets and Artists on the Nature of Things, Rocks: Hard Soft Smooth and Rough, science, Sheree Boyd, Song of the River Boatman and Other Pond Poems, Swan Song: Poems of Extinction, watersheds
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Holy Lands
One Navajo, one Jew: two distinct “holy lands.” Our recent ten day sojourn in Santa Fe, New Mexico reminded me of how culture and personal vision determine which particular portions of Mother Earth we hold sacred. Writing from the small … Continue reading
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Tagged Abiquiu, adobe house, Ayelet Waldman, Bears Ears National Monument, cathedral, Catholic missionaries, Christianity, Death Comes for the Archbishop, Georgia O'Keefe, holy land, Israel, Judaism, KIngdom of Olives and Ash:Writers Confront the Holocaust, kivas, Michael Chabon, missionaries, Muslim, Native American, Navajo, New Mexico, non-Christian gods, Palestinian, Pecos National Monument, President Trump, proselytizing, Pueblo, religion, sacred, Saint Kateria Tekawitha, Santa Fe, secular, secular humanism, Spanish priests, Temple Mount, The Yiddish Policeman's Union, Willa Cather
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Carrying a Torch for Miss Liberty
Watch out for the acetylene torch! This Valentine’s Day, “carrying a torch” holds new meanings for me. Besides being an old-fashioned term for infatuation, it brings literal torches to mind. I am a student in a course in “Balanced Sculpture,” with … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, American ideals, Balanced Sculpture, bigotry, dreams, Ellis Island, Guthrie Theater, immigrants, immigration, Lady Liberty, Minnetonka Arts Center, Miss Liberty, mobiles, President Trump, Promise Land, racism, stabiles, Statue of Liberty, Statue of Liberty replicas, torch, Transatlantic Love Affair theater ensemble, Trump administration, U.S. Constitution, Valentine's Day
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Following Aaron Copeland’s Dream
What would composer Aaron Copeland have made of the Jewish Film Festival in Bozeman, Montana, now in its second season? The Jewish, Brooklyn-born and raised Copeland (1900 – 1990) made notable use of his klezmer-infused, cityscape youth in many musical … Continue reading
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Tagged Aaron Copeland, agnostic, American West, Appalachian Spring, Billy the Kid Suite, Black Feet, Bozeman, Brooklyn, composer, cowboys, Crow, film score, Gene Pitney, international students, Japanese flutes, Jewish Film Festival, Jews, John Ford, klezmer music, Montana, Montana State University, Northern Paiute, Of Mice and Men, ouds, Rodeo, Sarah Winnemucca, Sarah Winnemucca: Scout Activist and Teacher, sitars, Spur Award, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, The Red Pony, Western Writers of America
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Color Me Puzzled . . . But Pleased
I had more questions than answers at last Sunday’s Minnesota Crossword Puzzle Tournament, held in St. Paul’s grand Landmark Center. Yet I had enormous fun participating in this annual event, organized four times now by the Friends of the St. Paul … Continue reading
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The IDIC of Leonard Nimoy: 1931 to 2015
Thirty-three years ago, the death of Mr. Spock seemed intolerable. That was the gist of a feature article I wrote back then for the Mankato Free Press. I was responding to 1982’s brand-new movie, Star Trek II : The Wrath … Continue reading
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Tagged 1982 article, aliens, fan conferences, fan phenomenon, fans, feminisim, IDIC, Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combination, Jewish, Judaism, Leonard Nimoy, Live Long and Prosper, LLAP, Mankato Free Press, minorities, Mr. Spock, Saavik, social science fiction, Spock, Star Trek, Star Trek franchise, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek novels, Star Trek: The Movie, The Entropy Effect, tweets, Vonda N. McIntyre, Vulcan, Yiddish, Zachary Quinto
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Memories and Motives–Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray Soda
Even now, I can taste the sharp sweetness of Dr. Brown’s Cel-Ray soda. This East Coast drink is my Yiddishkeit version of Marcel Proust’s madeleine, the bite-sized piece of sponge cake that launched seven volumes of Remembrance of Things Past. … Continue reading
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Tagged "ALS: Mysterious Disease of Giants", "snake oil", ALS, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Soda, Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray Tonic, Dr. Jane Hawking, fake medicines, Lou Gehrig's Disease, memoir, motor neuron disease, Odyssey magazine, Or Emet Illuminator, Professor Stephen Hawking, Sam Rosinsky, The Theory of Everything, Travelling to Infinity: My Life with Stephen, Travelling to Infinity: The True Story Behind The Theory of Everything
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Selma Lagerlof’s Home and the Swedish “Tom Thumb”
I visited Selma Lagerlof’s rural home in central Sweden–an old manor house called Marbacka, close to the town of Sunne and the city of Karlstad–in May, 2008. I had been thrilled to discover, when planning this trip with my Swedish-American … Continue reading
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Tagged folk tales, Karlstad, Marbacka, Memories of Marbacka, National Library of Sweden, Nils Holgersson, Nobel Prize for Literature, Selma Lagerlof, Sophie Elkan, Sunne, Sweden, Swedish "Tom Thumb", The Changeling, The Further Adventures of Nils, The Legend of the Christmas Rose, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils
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Jack the Ripper: The Story Behind the Book
They had names but not faces. Their dismembered body parts were identified but not their dreams and hopes. Even a century later, the world seemed to care more about their mysterious killer, Jack the Ripper, than it did about … Continue reading
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