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Gardening During Covid- How Nature Restores the Mind and Nourishes the Spirit.

5/28/2021

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Gardening During 
Covid 

by Jarad Johnson


If you know anything about Julie and Jarad, it’s that they love plants. In fact, they are plant obsessed. So, what did they do during quarantine? They gardened. They planted, and they dug around in the soil to find some sanity in an otherwise topsy turvy world. Good grief, this time last year, we feared for our democracy, were sheltering in place, seeing people in masks felt apocalyptic instead of normal, and everyday the news reported more and more death from a virus with no vaccine and seemingly no end. We lived (and live) in dark times. The only solution the two of them knew was to garden. It’s a source of solace, a cure for depression, and provides a sense of fulfillment. 

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Poetry: Lane Mochow

5/18/2021

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Pink Moon in Scorpio 
You Wouldn't Understand
Anyway 
by Lane Mochow 

 Pink Moon in Scorpio
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I count how many times
the moon yanks on her
trickling blondes

it may only be two,
but the tunnel divides himself,
unlit

by viscose cellophane or irradiated glass

last night, I forgot her face.

instead, the black
is now split by oil lamp

one spotlit
steel toed boot at a time
hovering above
a miner's floorboards.

I choose to clutch
hope's burlap,
holding
right is right
and left is nothing
but a hopeless chimera,
its body but
a mutilated yellow jacket
who stings until
light rolls the sky.

I suppose I will never
truly, unapologetically
hold my own fate.


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Review: The Seeds

5/10/2021

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The Seeds
Author, Ann Nocenti
and David Aja

by Roy Peak 


The Earth is dying, perhaps on its last dark days. Humanity goes on, as it does, fractured, tenuous, some grasping at hope, many ignoring the inevitable. A city is divided physically by a wall patrolled by armed guards who are easily bribed to look the other way. Across the wall is a vast wasteland where dwell those who have thrown their tech away—no phones, no cameras, no electricity—in anticipation of the coming world's end.

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Music Review: Modern Age

5/2/2021

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Vanessa Peters
Modern Age

by Roy Peak 
Music Editor
 

Vanessa Peters latest endeavor is an album of fun rock songs played by an ace crack band recorded in four countries during a worldwide pandemic. And for being recorded in such a haphazard manner, it sounds clear and fantastic. This warm and punchy recording leapt out of the new Pioneer speakers I recently installed in my old work van. I felt like a teenager again, blasting the songs while flying down the highway! If that ain't praise, well... 

I first heard Peters with her album Foxhole Prayers, which was jangly and rocking, but it was her all covers album, Mixtape, which set the bar a bit higher in that she took a few chances and it paid off well. So what about the songs on this new album? I'll say that so far I like this album better than her last two, so there is that.

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