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  • Butterfly on flower
    Vacant Lots: A Butterfly Hunter Considers the Sacred
    February 15, 2023
    The simplest definition of “sacred” in the Oxford English Dictionary has always seemed to me to be “set apart,” and that’s probably…
  • Volcanic eruption cloud near a town
    Hiroshima
    February 15, 2023
    Bright light, whiter than the sun,glittered for an instantbefore the sound split my earsand I dissolved,my last and only thoughtthat…
  • Man next to lifesaver
    D-Day, 1944: A Black Veteran Remembers
    February 15, 2023
    We have lost one more World War II veteran. Richard L. Walker, born May 7, 1924, passed away on October…
  • Dirt road crossing
    Recovery
    February 15, 2023
    I wanted to return to some imaginary lifebased on a collection of unstable memories I thought were real.I would gaze…
  • Desert Snow
    February 15, 2023
    Charlie Peterson looked at his watch and then at the departure board of Phoenix’s Sky Harbor Airport. Another 45 minutes he thought…
  • Army soldiers on the field with helicopters
    War All the Time
    February 15, 2023
    “It was the English,” Kaspar cried,“Who put the French to rout;But what they fought each other for,I could not well…

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