Bradner Gardens Mosaic and Poems by Jim O’Halloran

Bradner Gardens Mosaic and Poems by Jim O’Halloran

Bradner Gardens Mosaic and Poems by Jim O’Halloran Bradner Gardens Park is a community garden and gathering place in South Seattle with individual veggie plots (P-patches), a community lawn, a basketball court, play area, educational gardens, and a community...
How Did I Get Here? By Anna Schroeder

How Did I Get Here? By Anna Schroeder

How Did I Get Here? By Anna Schroeder The Sky is bright blue. I find myself in the cab of a huge combine in the middle of a soybean field. How does a petite middle-aged female artist find herself here? I grew up in a small town with views on life that I found even...
Elisha Gullixson Memorial Part 2

Elisha Gullixson Memorial Part 2

Elisha Gullixson Memorial Part 2 Memories of Elisha by Lawrence Pevec Elisha was a lovely man. I didn’t see him that often in recent years as we lived far apart, but I have always felt close to him. I will miss his wry sense of humor and of course his incredible piano...
Elisha Gullixson Memorial Part 1

Elisha Gullixson Memorial Part 1

Elisha Gullixson Memorial Part 1 Remembering Elisha Gullixson by Jim O’Halloran I am so grateful to have known Elisha, for so many reasons. Foremost, Elisha was one of the helpers at my opening on April Fool’s Day, 1994. We have kept in touch ever since. After...

How We Mourn Them by Leana McClellan

How We Mourn Them By Leana McClellan We sorrow for them on the street, in the wind chill, because that is where their hearts were frozen. Our sorrow spreads like their warm, unapologetic blood which frames the margins of their ending. Staring at our screens, we sorrow...
True Words By Emmanuel Aronie

True Words By Emmanuel Aronie

True Words By Emmanuel Aronie The following poem is yet another in a series of moving pieces written by someone who is clearly “walking his talk” as he serves his Brothers and Sisters in Ukraine. True Words,will avenge those brave souls, stuck in prison cells,while...

Crazy Subud Stories Collected by Jim O’ Halloran

Above: Underground Mouse, watercolor, by Roberta Hoffman Crazy Subud Stories Collected by Jim O’ Halloran The following stories were hilariously and movingly submitted by some of our favorite contributors: Crazy Subud Story by Hanafi Libman I think it must have...
Letter to My Uncle by Joseph Curran

Letter to My Uncle by Joseph Curran

Letter to My Uncle by Joseph Curran Dear Uncle Paul, Sorry, I can’t do Memorial Day. It’s like a clamp on my heart, pressing deep, searching for purpose, an understanding for the meaning of grief. The clamp can help, it can hurt, it can repair, it can...
Lorraine Arden Memorial Subud Stories

Lorraine Arden Memorial Subud Stories

Above: Lorraine with sisters Mary Kimsey and Lusijah Marx Lorraine Arden Memorial Subud Stories As shared with her daughter, Elisa Arden For as long as I can remember, I have always been looking for a way to connect to God. I grew up in a family where religion played...