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Threshing meetings
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This term currently denotes a meeting at which a variety of different, and sometimes controversial, opinions can be openly, and sometimes forcefully, expressed, often in order to defuse a situation before a later meeting for worship for business. Originally the term was used to describe large and noisy meetings for convincement of 'the world's people' in order to 'thresh' them away from the world.
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Threshing Meetings
When might a threshing meeting be considered?
• Where a difference of opinion(s) is causing distress or disturbance to
individuals or the meeting, or delaying a necessary decision.
• Where a potentially contentious or controversial issue needs to be
• To allow views to be expressed to enable movement towards greater clarity.
• As a preliminary to a decision-making meeting.
Preparing for a threshing meeting
• Give good advance notice.
• Include all who have a particular interest in the matter.
• Make a special effort to ensure that Friends of all shades of opinion will be
present. The meeting will be less useful if Friends of a particular view are
Everyone attending needs to be clear about the purpose and conduct of the
They should be able and willing to understand the disciplines inherent in the
process so that sensitive and vulnerable people do not feel marginalised or
Those with confidence and authority should be prepared to stand back to allow
the less articulate to have their say and should have the ability to challenge
actions, views, behaviour in a caring and affirming way.
Appoint a clerk or co-clerks who are not involved personally in the issue. It
may be helpful if they are experienced Friends from outside the meeting so
that everyone within the meeting can take part. It is important that the clerk
maintains the discipline of the agreed guidelines.
Background papers with factual information should be circulated beforehand,
together with guidelines for the meeting (see below). An outline of the
intended procedure is helpful. A timetable is useful, although this should not
limit what needs to be said. Adequate time is needed to allow everyone space
in which to be heard, though it is wise to agree a time by which the meeting
will close.
Suggested guidelines
• Friends should wait to be called by the clerk, who will request a reflective
silence between contributions. They are not limited to speaking once
only, but should only do so after everyone has had the opportunity
and encouragement to speak, so as to allow space for the less confident
members to be heard.
• Everyone is free to state his or her views clearly, passionately and honestly.
• Contributions should be received with respect and attention, seeking what
truth they may hold.
• Friends should resist using words suggesting accusation or blame and
should keep to simple statements of how a specific view, action or
behaviour affects them.
• Any personal disclosures are confidential to the attending group.
The meeting
At the outset the clerk reminds Friends of the importance of the guidelines and
obtains their explicit agreement to observe them. They may be amended if all
The meeting begins and ends with a period of worship.
The first part of the threshing meeting will be a time for feelings and views to
be expressed and heard. This is followed by looking forward to the future, if
the meeting is ready. On the other hand, it may be that the forward look will be
better addressed at a further meeting which may be called to do this. A break
may be taken if it will be helpful.
The meeting should be a safe place for expressing and receiving feelings. It is
best to make no notes of the threshing as these might not help the process of
moving forward.
The clerk will close the meeting, minuting that a threshing meeting has been
It is important to be aware of a need for informal oversight to ensure that there
is care and thought for everyone's well-being and to see that anyone who has
been emotionally affected is not left to leave unsupported.
What can a threshing meeting achieve that other meetings may not?
Doubt and anxieties can be expressed without obstructing a decision, which
can be liberating.
It may be helpful in clearing the air and bringing some clarity and
understanding that had previously been lacking.
It can be useful when there is an issue that would benefit from hearing ideas
and views without any intention of coming to a conclusion.
It allows for an interval for reflection before a decision needs to be made.
When is a threshing meeting inappropriate?
Where a conflict involves a particular individual or individuals, threshing can
be experienced as oppressive or even as scapegoating and is not recommended.
When only two or three people have a disagreement, mediation may be
When the issue is complex and requires particular knowledge or detailed
explanation, a meeting for learning or exploration, with papers in advance,
would be better.
Other Quaker processes to consider are: a meeting for clearness, creative
listening, worship sharing.
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Arthur Meyer Boyd in FriendsJournal :
Friends operate by "sense of the meeting," not consensus. This is not the same as unity or "everyone has agreed." So, the clerk might state that "we appear to have reached a sense of the meeting to do X, would (address by name the objecting person or persons) be willing to stand aside?" (...)
There is Quaker lore that any individual can stand in the way of a decision and prevent the decision from being taken. This is not entirely true. "Standing in the way" is a mutual responsibility between the individual and meeting to test our sense of the Truth as we are imperfectly able to sense it at the time. But no one, after prayerful consideration by the meeting, can "stand in the way of a decision" without the meeting's permission. The meeting can proceed, in loving tenderness to those who cannot join in the decision.
Arthur, a member of Stony Run Meeting in Baltimore, Md., is associate executive secretary of Friends Committee on National Legislation.
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Rachel Muers and Rhiannon Grant in their research project report wrote:
Threshing meetings are relatively rare and many Quakers in Britain Yearly Meeting have never encountered them.
When they are conducted – as often as every few years in some places – there are a wide range of understandings about how they could or should be run. Usually, they are preparatory meetings which support a Meeting for Worship for Business by considering a single complex issue without deciding on it. This report aims to articulate the basic principles and purposes of threshing meetings in order to enable Quakers to use them confidently and effectively, but it also addresses some deeper issues.
Most importantly, threshing meetings illustrate how Quaker decision-making processes are extended and diffuse, not contained within Meetings for Worship for Business. Many formal, semi-formal, and informal practices can properly be seen as part of the decision-making process, and threshing meetings are one of these practices.
The diversity and experimental or locally-devised character may be part of what makes threshing meetings useful, and it does not prevent the accumulation of wisdom or the sharing of good practice in relation to them. What can be damaging is an unacknowledged diversity which is projected as "the others are doing it wrong". With plenty of "rule sheets" available, some stricter than others, there is plenty of advice circulating, but it is necessary to articulate the underlying principles which relate these multiple sets of guidelines to one another.
We find it helpful to see a threshing meeting as a "threshold" or transitional space – usually, into Meeting for Worship for Business. Threshing an issue is one of the ways in which a meeting can work to bring "the whole of its… life under the ordering of the Spirit".
Threshing meetings themselves are usually held in a spirit of worship, but, unlike business meetings, they are not focussed on reaching a decision through discerning the will of God. Rather, they focus on exploring and understanding the complex, messy and multi-stranded nature of the "whole of life". This includes, especially, strong emotions, rational arguments, and disputes about matters of fact – all aspects of our lives that might be set aside or downplayed as a Quaker business meeting reaches a decision, but which need to be heard and taken into account in the preparation for that decision. A threshing meeting is one way in which Quakers can respond collectively to the advice to come with heart and mind prepared.


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Prospect #4 Wilson Ramos
Signed as International Free Agent in 2004, Venezuela
Levels Played in 2009: AA New Britain
Opening Day Age: 22
Wilson Ramos is a premium prospect. As one of those type of players that was plucked from South America at the age of 16, his development has been slow. But it has developed into a high caliber major league catcher. Ramos has all the tools to be successful and do even more.
The past three years, Wilson Ramos has moved quickly through low A ball all the way to AA and gave Drew Butera a run to make the major league roster this spring. Hampered by injuries, Ramos only played 54 games in AA New Britain. And playing only 54 games, some scouts still have Ramos rated as high as number 2 in the organization and top 40 in all of Major League Baseball. Ramos hit .317/.341/.454 in New Britain. At the age of 20 in 2008 he hit 13 home runs and drove in 78 in 126 games in a very tough Florida State League. Remember we are talking about a catcher here.
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Offensivley Ramos is special. He has light tower power and again we are talking about a catcher here. He only had 30 at bats this spring but he made the most of them hitting .400 with and OPS of 1.133. He hit 2 monster home runs including one of former Twin Johan Santana. In the long run he will be able to hit for great power, and hit .280-.300 yearly. The only issue with his bat is his walk rate. In 5 years at the minors Ramos only has a league average OBP of .338. His strikeout to walk rate is more then 2 to 1. A lot of Twins scouts have gone out and said that this is not to much of a concern because the rest of his game is that good, but at some point getting on base is more important then making hard contact.
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ETA: September 2010
Projection: Power hitting catcher (25-30HR) with very good defense.
MLB Comparison: Behind the plate he will resemble any of the Molina brothers (Yadier, Jose, and Benjie). His bat will be Geovanny Soto.
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Clement now faces a puzzle to pick the players who will play the doubles on Saturday.
Monfils is scheduled to play with Julien Benneteau but Tsonga and Gasquet's performances could prompt the French captain to change his mind.
"Jo and Richard playing together tomorrow is definitely a possibility. We will discuss it tonight," said Clement.
So far, his choices have been inspired.
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Over the past couple of months, I've taken a closer look at health-care access in Durham as a part of my work at DurhamCares, a local nonprofit. I've met with several nonprofit leaders, and they repeat a similar refrain: Durham may be the City of Medicine, but we're not yet a city of health.
Quality clinical care in Durham has long been a priority, and we're fortunate to have the world-renowned Duke University Health System in our backyard. Durham also boasts several clinics that serve low-income and indigent residents.
Through their work, Durham County meets, and in some cases, surpasses, health-care access needs of our low-income, uninsured or underinsured neighbors. Those benchmarks are summarized in the Partnership for a Healthy Durham's 2014 Community Health Assessment, which provides an overview for dozens of health indicators.
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City of Medicine designation or not, we sometimes aren't able to care for those most in need.
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However, a closer look at the data reveals significant disparities. Minority groups in Durham make up 52 percent of adults who report living with diabetes. That's significantly above the Healthy NC 2020 goal. That made me wonder who has helped us surpass that goal six years ahead of schedule, and how we define our goals in the first place.
I recently spoke with Carlotta Jordan, who was diagnosed with diabetes in 2009. As part of her treatment plan, she chose Lincoln Community Health Center to help her navigate care. Before connecting with the center, Jordan said her diagnosis was more difficult to understand, and she wasn't sure what treatment plan would be best for her. She credits Lincoln with educating her about diabetes, in addition to helping her manage other health-related issues, and says thanks to Lincoln, she's able to live a healthier life.
Jordan's story is one of many positive stories about health-care access in Durham. The Partnership's assessment gives us a bird's eye view of the most pressing issues and strategies for success, but it also outlines who is benefitting from proper care and who is left on the sidelines.
Pick nearly any health-related topic summarized in the assessment, and you'll find a detailed analysis of disparities and emerging issues. When it comes to access to dental care, 58 percent of children ages one to five enrolled in Medicaid have received dental care within the past year, which is great news. However, once again, the assessment also reveals close to 80 percent of Caucasians in Durham received dental care within the past year, compared to only 60 percent of all other races. There's also a nearly 30 percent spread for dental care access when it compares families that make more or less than $50,000 a year.
In each case, while Durham County has met significant benchmarks outlined by the state, it's worth taking a second look as to who has helped meet those standards. We tout ourselves as the City of Medicine, but who has access to care, and who is benefitting from it?
Thankfully, there's a collaborative of nonprofits working to improve health care access in Durham. They're working together to teach our neighbors about resources, and they're relying on you to help them spread the word.
Do you know a nurse, doctor, or dentist? They might enjoy volunteering with the Samaritan Health Center, a clinic that serves medically vulnerable community members. Donate to the LCHC's foundation, and help people like Carlotta Jordan continue to thrive. Become an organ donor through Donate Life NC. Equip seniors to navigate health insurance as a Medicare counselor through Senior PharmAssist.
Each of these options can turn the City of Medicine into a city of health. After all, how effective is a city full of medicine if it can't become a healthy city, too?
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I, like my father, have four children. The days run me over like a MAC truck ramming over a soda can. Many days it is difficult to see the future due to the giant mountain standing right in front of me. The mountains change daily. Spilled blueberry smoothie all over the carpet, poop under your fingernail (insert gagging), or maybe my child's attitude is appalling. During one of those moments of pure frustration, my dad leans over and says, "just remember…these are the good ole days."
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Transform Scotland has today (Tuesday 23 June) launched a new guide, 'Car-Free Tourism', which provides directions for tourists to reach Scotland's top 24 visitor destinations without the need for a car, as well as instructions for tourism operators to improve sustainable transport access to their sites across Scotland.
The 'Car-Free Tourism' website provides detailed instructions on accessing the sites without having to jump between a number of travel planning websites. Each page has all the information tourists require to travel to the site without spending time on lots of research. Walking and cycling routes are provided as files that can be downloaded to smartphone apps and GPS devices. The site also provides advice for tourism operators encouraging them to develop or improve sustainable travel options for visitors.
Jolin Warren, Head of Research at Transform Scotland, said:
"It's easy to visit most of Scotland's popular tourist attractions on foot, by bike or by public transport. Our new guide presents the best of Scotland without a car. It provides visitors with detailed but simple instructions on the nearest railway station, local buses, as well as hand-chosen walking and cycling routes.
"There are of course hundreds of other visitor destinations across Scotland. We hope that our guide will inspire those managing these sites to look at how they too can improve access by public transport, by bike, and on foot."
John Lauder, National Director of Sustrans Scotland, said:
"Visitors arriving by foot and on bike bring a host of benefits. They can improve their health through taking exercise. It means fewer cars on the road and as a result less pollution. Cyclists and walkers also tend to have a greater local economic impact. But, perhaps more importantly, by improving access by public transport and active travel, tourist attractions are opened up to the third of Scottish households who have no access to a car."
Malcolm Roughead, Chief Executive of VisitScotland, said:
"This is an excellent initiative which will provide visitors to Scotland with alternative, environmentally friendly ways of getting to some of our outstanding attractions. As part of our Quality Assurance Scheme, VisitScotland encourages Scottish tourism businesses to promote public transport options and car-free activities, and Transform Scotland's new guide will prove a useful resource to visitors and business owners alike."
The project is being launched at Glasgow's Riverside Museum as, in recent years, much investment has gone into improving transport links to the site, with improved off-road walk and cycle routes, the Nextbike bike hire, SPT's 100 Riversider bus service from George Square, and the recently-revamed Partick Interchange.
The 'Car-Free Tourism' website is available at <http://tourism.transform.scot>.
Transform Scotland have also launched a video illustrating the project. This is available at <http://tourism.transform.scot/about-the-project/>.
The website includes:
A map showing the 24 most popular tourism attractions in Scotland, each linking through to a profile page for the attraction.
Profile pages for each attraction providing details about the best non-car routes for travelling to the site, and what facilities are provided, so that a visitor can quickly and easily plan a trip. PDF and GPX files for the cycling and walking routes are provided, so it is easy to print out a route or add it to a cycle or walking app. The pages also provide links to transport operators and travel planners.
A page for tourism operators encouraging them to develop or improve sustainable travel options for visitors. This provides the Green Access Audit toolkit, Visitor Travel Plans guidance, and the Car-Free Tourism website checklist.
'Top 24' destinations
The destinations considered as part of the project are the 24 most-visited tourist attractions as according to VisitScotland's 'Tourism in Scotland 2013' report <http://www.visitscotland.org/research_and_statistics/tourismstatistics.aspx>:
- National Museum of Scotland -- 1,768,090 visits in 2013
- Edinburgh Castle -- 1,420,027
- Loch Lomond Shores -- 1,140,119
- Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum -- 1,044,067
- St Giles' Cathedral -- 940,530
- Scottish National Gallery -- 933,296
- Gretna Green Famous Blacksmith's Shop -- 761,487
- Edinburgh Zoo -- 760,897
- Riverside Museum -- 740,276
- Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh -- 664,407
- National War Museum -- 572,361
- Gallery of Modern Art -- 572,152
- Edinburgh Bus Tours -- 555,422
- Glasgow Botanic Gardens -- 430,000
- Stirling Castle -- 411,726
- Falkirk Wheel -- 409,142
- Glasgow Science Centre -- 390,375
- Robert Burns Birthplace Museum -- 327,973
- Urquhart Castle -- 310,446
- Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre -- 301,782
- Royal Yacht Britannia -- 300,161
- Scottish Seabird Centre -- 271,443
- CairnGorm Mountain Railway -- 230,136
- Culzean Castle and Country Park -- 218,949
Colin Howden, Transform Scotland director, on 07956 394121.


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In the last edition of the Metaphysical Times the theme was "Magic." I went on about the Magic of Water and what water meant for life on Earth. Well, sometimes I get stuck on something and can't really stop thinking about it. We decided that the theme this time would be "Power Places." But all I really want to do is still obsess about how important water is.
To start with water is Power,
but water is not a Place.
Water makes places.
When the earth heaves up and breaks, the water hunts down the breaks and builds a stream, or a river, or crashes down other breaks and makes a waterfall or great lakes. If the earth breaks and drifts far apart water fills even the largest spaces and creates oceans, or seas. Water sources can change deep underground and great rivers turn back into streams and trickles or dry up all together.
It seems that humans can't resist following water. I am sure that it didn't take primitive peoples long to know how much easier it is to get from one place to another perched on a floating log and then a hollowed out log, and then finally a boat.
If you get tired going down the river, you pull to the side and stop. If there is a waterfall too steep or rapids too rough, you pull to the side and stop. Build a hut and eventually it becomes a community.
Waterways make travel easier. Trade routes develop. A waterway meeting another waterway, a road crossing a river, a river meeting an ocean, an ocean meeting a continent. Cities, towns, and villages spring up at these crossings. Commerce soon becomes a by-product of population: London, Paris, Rome, Moscow, New York City.
Man-made waterways created new opportunities for growth around the world. There was a time when the only way to send cargo from the east coast of the United States to the west coast by water was all the way around South America. To go from New York City to Buffalo, New York, it took boats and wagons and more boats. The Panama Canal and the Erie Canal changed travel and commerce in our country. The Suez Canal has influenced trade, peace and wars.
Waterfalls are
the waterways
"stop signs."
Waterfalls could be the early settlers' greatest source of water power. They are where the traveller, the adventurer, and the merchant get out of the boat and move by foot or cart. It just feels so darn good around all that rushing water, you might loose your ambition and build your home. Ocean waves, waterfalls and water's cousin, lightning, just make you feel so relaxed.
"Its the ions Georgia,
I can feel the ions."
That's at least what my mother said years ago about waterfalls and lightning. I thought it was too much time with my father's books on Feng-Shui.
But it's true: the most powerful form of negative ions shows up in the air after a thunder-storm; next is in the air around a waterfall. The waterfalls and thunderstorms add an extra electron to oxygen, by which they purify air, increase serotonin, and increase energy. WebMD reported that Columbia University studies of people with winter and chronic depression show that negative ion generators relieve depression as much as antidepressants. "The best part is that there are relatively no side effects."
My mother was of course correct. Go to a waterfalls to regenerate your mind, emotions, and spirit. There are wonderful waterfalls in this world and most are surrounded by resorts. Vacationers flock to hotels around waterfalls from Alaska to Zimbabwe.
Rushing water makes negative ions. Think about the rain: a hot summer's day and a rain storm pops up. You feel better. It is not only the cooling. The rain creates negative ions, you breathe them in and the body and mind begins to just feel better. You get home from a stressful day at work and take a shower. You really weren't that dirty. It just made you feel better.
Rushing water makes the same relaxing negative ions whether it is from that beautiful waterfall on the cover of our magazine, from the Taughannock Falls at the beginning of my article, or the pulsing spray of your shower.
So, you don't live near a waterfall, or an ocean, and the lake outside your apartment is so polluted that you cannot stand the smell when your window is open. A few minutes ago you made a banana smoothie and the bottom of the blender fell off. It was your last banana.
Go dance in the rain.
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Reply: Have you ever seen a small chunk of pure sodium metal burn, shriek, and tear itself apart when dropped into water? The energy release during the extremely rapid oxidation is impressive. It's not the same as the earth, but in some ways it's analogous - earth is burning (slowly), and tearing itself apart constantly - as a result of trying to cool off.
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At this site on top of a rocky outcropping a castle once stood
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a friend put it on the map for me... (Go to Story)
The most powerful place I've ever known isn't there any more except between my ears.
It was a flat swampy wetland with a brook flowing through it that once fed a shallow lake that Mom said she had skated on in long ago winter times. I imagined Mom skating in a mental newsreel, black and white and shaky; not a memory of my own at all but of something else I never knew but wish I did. (Go to Story)________________
(more "Fish Eye" cartoons by Mark Finn)
It seems that humans can't resist following water. I am sure that it didn't take primative peoples long to know how much easier to get from one place to another perched on a fallen log and then a hollow log, a canoe and then finally a boat.
If you get tired going down the river, you pull to the side and stop. If there is a waterfall too steep or rapids too rough, you pull to the side and stop. Build a hut and eventually it becomes a community. (Go to Story)
It seems that humans can't resist following water. I am sure that it didn't take primative peoples long to know how much easier to get from one place to another perched on a fallen log and then a hollow log, a canoe and then finally a boat.
If you get tired going down the river, you pull to the side and stop. If there is a waterfall too steep or rapids too rough, you pull to the side and stop. Build a hut and eventually it becomes a community. (Go to Story)
The Old Same-Place, as we called it when we lived there in the seventies, was a nineteenth-century farm house next to a small, unmowed cemetery under tall White Pines as old as the stones where Blackcap Raspberries thrived in a couple of patches. Wild Morning Glory vines hooded the tomb stones and climbed the old pines to their first branches twenty or thirty feet above the ground. The old Pines had grown so large that their sprawling roots tilted the vine-hooded tombstones so that they seemed to be running away
One morning I was poking into the cemetery with my dog Kasha to check on some ripening BlackCap berries in which Kasha had no interest, she lay down in patch of Morning Glory vines near a stone I had never noticed before. It was mostly obscured by the vines but the thing was bigger than a bowling ball and glowing red. (Go to Story)
Connecticut Hill, about the wildest part of Tompkins County, has some reputation as a portal between worlds, a landing spot for space aliens, and the habitat of Bigfoot. I don't know about all of that, but I have hunted, prospected, and skied for years on that hill, and I don't get how people manage to come across Aliens and Bigfeet there, and not even notice the numerous Littlefeet: the small yellowish natives who retreated to the Gorges when the pre-Iroquois Algonquins arrived, and left the gorges for the hills when the Iroquois took over.
(Go to Story)
In the 70's I was known in Tompkins County as someone that had an interest to play with stones and this fellow wanted to find a particular boulder to set on some property in Ellis Hollow at the northeast quadrant at the corner of Turkey Hill Road and Ellis Hollow Road. He explained there was a confluence of ley lines in the area and that it was full of power. He wanted to place a boulder at the intersection to make it even more powerful a meditation space. This was, as I recall, to be called something like The Temple of Light.
(Go to Story)
Before Alcoholic Anonymous, or AA, there were Ancient Astronauts, the first-ever AAs. I met some of them when I was drinking spiked Mother's Milk in a far away Power Place called The Womb and later, after getting deported, at the Friday night Mensa meeting in Halifax.
They were a fast-talking fun-loving crowd but none too clever given they chose Earth as a crash pad. That was their big mistake and a dead give-away that these so-called Ancient Astronauts were on the interstellar lam and just looking for a new place to party. (Go to Story)
We would drive the buggy where
apart from the wheel tracks
we'd left last week
there was no trace of anyone
the land was so very flat
in all directions
we must unknowingly have crossed
one horizon after another
we might have been
let down from an angel chariot
for all the time
that distance seemed to take
your summons uplifted me
when the horse had its head
the prairie just rolled back
as steady as knitting
and in that pleasure
the body takes when it is
inured to hunger
and the fierce desires
in the renewed
appearance of tranquility
in each moved moment
we rehearsed our satisfaction
over and over so that
later I would find myself
repeating it even in my sleep
where there could be no expectation
of sharing it with you
how your call abides
that invited me
to look from that grassy shore
across a blind eye of water
with the ducks returning as
soon as our carriage-sounds stop
in a line that flattens as the surface
approaches beneath it
only to spill apart
and splash into several gratitudes
at the last moment
Chris MacCormick
Wake Me
by Mary Gilliland
In the treeless light of Delos
mullein flowers burn round
and the stone lions
have waited so long
some have lost their smiles,
others their heads.
In Eleusinian bus exhaust
rain beads like wax
drops along a candle
toward the smashed ruins.
In Samaria the temples
are not slabs of stone.
Water cold as fire
channels the gorge.
In the neglect at Dodona
Persephone has burned
to a shade thinner than sorrow
and fled to the caverns
leaving a painted turtle
to stare down the lizards.
'Nice Girl' first appeared in
The Greenfield Review 14, 3/4 (1987)
Places of Power
Mt. Shasta
In the fall of 2016 our prose writing workshop ("Traveling, Thinking, Writing") read books by Eddy Harris, Linda Grant Niemann, and Robert Michael Pyle. Pyle's book is called Where Bigfoot Walks and one weekend in early November we endeavored to go out walking in one of the places where Bigfoot is reputed to walk, Siskiyou County in northern California. We drove north for five hours—in a rented van—from Berkeley. (Go to Story)
Places of Power
Mt. Shasta
by Peter Fortunato
I'm originally from Kansas, and that's why the name has stuck. A guy I met when I first hitchhiked to the Mountain started calling me that, and I liked it, and so on Shasta I became Kansas for keeps. That was my first time up there, 1976. I came down from the Mountain when Rinpoche arrived in the Bay Area, and there I made some new friends and we all stayed in the same house with him in the hills near Orinda. A lovely, friendly little town in those days—I wonder what it's like now? (Go to Story)
The Texture of Music
by Peter Wetherbee
As a musician, audio engineer, and listener, I would like to define beauty in sound. What is it that makes something sound good? What is my favorite kind of music? If there could possibly be such a defining measuring stick, how would one quantify the magnitude of a given piece of art or music, the depth of beauty, or the absolute weight of meaning in the artistic gesture or statement?
I would like to call this magical sweet spot the location of power in music. (Go to Story)
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