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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 why I’ve never felt very…
  • 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 no one would knowI had…
  • 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 26, 2020. Son of William…
  • 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 fondly on those memories and…
  • 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 as the Christmas Muzak and…

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