Editor’s Note: Based on his ten near-death experiences, Patrick has agreed to answer readers’ questions, either in this forum or by private email. If you ask a question you don’t want answered publicly, The MOON will forward it, along with your email address, to him. If you are willing to have the question answered publicly, all readers can benefit. Q. Is it possible we actually sense the nearness of spirits […]
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Mark M. Rostenko | The Fear
Come to the edge, he said. They said: We are afraid. Come to the edge, he said. They came. He pushed them and they flew. — Guillaume Apollinaire I head west, deeper into the Southwestern desert, where to I’ve not a clue. I’ll know when I get there, wherever the lure of the unknown draws me. No human sign in four… or is it five?…however many days. The horizon slips […]
Bruce E. Johansen | Forgotten Founders
The following is excerpted from a free online book, The Forgotten Founders, written by Bruce E. Johansen and made available to the public to help correct the insult to Native Americans–and the disservice done to the rest of us–by ignoring their contributions to the government established by the United States’ founding fathers. WHEN THE IROQUOIS CONFEDERACY was formed, no Europeans were present with clocks and a system for telling time before […]
Ross Gay | Some thoughts on mercy
I WAS IN my garden, walking aimlessly with sickle in hand, taking swipes at the plantain that had erupted into tiny flower heads or at the blowzy red clover growing in tall thickets and slurped at by bumblebees. I walked with absolute freedom, barefoot behind the house I own, in the garden I had built with a joyful toil unlike any other I’d experienced: nibbling the blueberries and what were […]
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