George Northrop

George H. Northrup | Daydream in an anchored sailboat

It is almost like flying, rocking here on the waves as the bay itself glides across bedrock hovering on a fiery liquid core.   And the whole planet spins around, dangles in the thrall of a far-off star suspended in the dizzy tension of a great galactic web.   The entire universe is floating in frictionless flight, and even were it to fall, it would have nowhere to crash except […]

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Dennis W. Schwesinger

Dennis J. Schwesinger | We meet again

A gorgon haled me when I walked across the pasture. It had eaten a cow I loved, asked me what I thought I might do about it. I shrugged. He was a giant gorgon and strode away jerking side to side with laughter.   We dream sometimes of things we can’t remember: a strange place, another lifetime. I never loved a cow and Don’t believe in gorgons. But it was […]

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Movies You Might’ve Missed | Impossible is Nothing

Blindsight is the movie that inspired our interview with Sabriye Tenberken. A stunning film directed by the superbly talented Lucy Walker, Blindsight introduces us to Tenberken as a young blind woman traveling through Tibet to recruit students for her school for the blind in Lhasa—the country’s first and only school for blind children. Because many Tibetans believe that blindness is a curse for sins in a previous incarnation, blind children […]

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Joan Kantor | ‘Becoming her’ and ‘Ride of a lifetime’

Becoming Her There was a woman I greatly admired   She was caring creative self-confident daring   She was smart and had a career She completed herself as a wife and mother while I cowered and cringed filled with fear   For me risks weren’t an option   Then I began to come into my own The process was slow   I married a man who believed in my growth […]

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