ABOUT – TOWARD THE CLEARING by Jean Cassidy

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Woonsocket Territory, South Dakota 1884

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RECLAMATION

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Remnants

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CURATOR – A Story in Seven Short Essays

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Today at the Arboretum with friends, I watch a black rat snake lounge on slender branches in its vivarium, a tall acrylic box with quarter-inch ventilation holes. Its head floats in slow motion, spitting a forked tongue left to right as it slides...

RENOVATION

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On Art, and Finding a Way Home

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I think art of any kind has to do with finding one’s way home, that is, back to oneself perhaps for the first time. Art often helps connect heart and mind, to find the story one is searching for.

Polio in Chicago, 1946

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A typical mid-summer morning in the city, the air weighted with swelter late August 1946. My brother is four and on his way to Riverview Amusement Park with our Mom, who is lumbering into the second half of her pregnancy with me. An outing, just...