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    Thich Nhat Hanh in the West Virginia Hills

    January 25, 2022 /

    The great Vietnamese Buddhist master Thich Nhat Hanh, who died this week, once led a retreat in the West Virginia hills in 1993. I was there with some friends, finding myself at one point serenading the beloved monk. Thirty year later, the retreat continues to resonate in the lives of those of us who went.

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  • Essay,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    10 Illuminated Thoughts About Life on Manchin Island

    December 23, 2021 /

    The stakes are high in WV senator Joe Manchin's Build Back Better gamesmanship. What happens now that he blew up negotiations — and now it looks like they're coming back together?

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    EDITORS/NOTE: December2021

    December 10, 2021 /

    Here's what's up in the December 2021 issue, last one for awhile as we go on hiatus with this edition until March 1, 2022.

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  • Climate,  Music/Video,  Photos/Video

    Harmonically urging Joe to back Build Back Better

    December 10, 2021 /

    A harmonic convergence of West Virginians come together on the new music video "Hey Joe," urging Joe Manchin to support the Build Back Better Act and its many climate measures.

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  • Music/Video,  Photos/Video,  Picture/Show,  Stories

    Losing yourself in Lost River

    December 10, 2021 /

    Wandering the byways and backroads of the Lost River environs in eastern West Virginia, while trying to write a sorta memoir. An imagistic journey.

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    The sink as a refuge of sanctuary & solidarity

    December 10, 2021 /

    'I am at one with a long line of the faithful, monks of Ireland, or Tibet, or France, silently preparing or cleaning up from the day’s meals, mindfully caring for community, or in readiness to offer hospitality.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    Multifest still a beacon of the need for the Black press

    December 10, 2021 /

    Like many injustices Black newspapers fought head-on, solutions arose only when the Black press first drew attention to them. A look at the West Virginia Beacon Digest and the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta.

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  • Essay,  Points of View,  Readings,  Stories

    Teach your children well — but not what to think

    December 10, 2021 /

    'Your children are not your property. They belong to the future. You cannot make them duplicates of your opinions, values and habits. And if you did, life would soon break them, teaching them that the ideas and understandings of the last generation do not serve the next.'

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  • Readings,  Stories

    What we are reading — or what is reading us

    December 10, 2021 /

    A survey of paragraphs, images, articles and links that pinged our radar and got us thinking.

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  • Books,  NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    ‘Desperate’ highlights fight for clean water in West Virginia coalfields

    December 10, 2021 /

    The fight for clean water is central to "Desperate," which tells the story of coal mining communities in southern West Virginia battling Massey Energy and Don Blankenship, for clean water.

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  • NewsoftheDay,  Stories

    How West Virginia’s new vaccine law opens the door wider to politicizing public health

    December 10, 2021 /

    Beginning January 2022, it will be significantly easier for West Virginians to claim exemptions from employer COVID-19 vaccination mandates. That raises all sorts of red flags.

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  • Readings,  Stories

    Storytelling from campfires to computers

    December 10, 2021 /

    Here's a compendium of encouragements, links, quotes, and brain downloads from a lifetime of writing stories. To be continued ...

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  • Editors/Notes,  Stories

    EDITORS/NOTE: Allen Ginsberg & Bonfires | The Sky & Eternity | Manchin & Byrd and more

    November 4, 2021 /

    If this November 2021 issue were a bag of Tootsie Pops, we’d have all the different flavors, including that rare blue-raspberry-flavored purple one. Dive deep into this month’s magazine and you’ll find lots of flavors.

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  • Characters,  Music,  Music/Video,  Stories

    CHARACTERS, PART 1: A music video about how I never slept with Allen Ginsberg

    November 4, 2021 /

    What do you get when you mix famous poet Allen Ginsberg, a bonfire deep in the West Virginia hills, an interview, and a recording studio. Well, 30 years later you get a music video.

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  • Characters,  Poetics,  Stories

    CHARACTERS, PART 2: Allen Ginsberg speaks up in West Virginia

    November 4, 2021 /

    In Part 2 of our Allen Ginsberg in West Virginia history, we reprint an interview with the poet who was featured at the 1983 WV Writers Inc., conference deep in the West Virginia hills.

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  • Art,  Music,  Photos/Video,  Poetics,  Q-and-A,  Stories

    Q&A: “Where Sky Meets Eternity” documents an extraordinary artistic hand-off in the WV hills

    November 4, 2021 /

    The documentary "Where Sky Meets Eternity” profiles an ambitious, offbeat art project from deep in the West Virginia hills, as 12 artists bounced off each other's work in often surprising, unexpected ways.

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  • Art,  Nature,  Photos/Video,  Picture/Show,  Stories

    PICTURE/SHOW: The Hills & Dales of Al Peery’s West Virginia

    November 4, 2021 /

    When it comes to Autumn in the West Virginia outback, nothing could be finer than Al Peery framing the scene from his wanderings in the West Virginia wilderness.

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  • Climate,  Poetics,  Stories

    POEM: “A Year of Few Apples” by Kirk Judd

    November 4, 2021 /

    'Pantry shelves and freezer bins/ Scavenged for this season’s solitary pies/ Settled atop cooling racks/ On cinnamon evenings/ In oven-warmed kitchens.'

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  • Nature,  Poetics,  Stories

    POEM: “Almost” by Marc Harshman

    November 4, 2021 /

    'The world will go on without me but for these few moments I am/ sitting on top of the world, a simple summer's day, away/ from the busy rush of roads, the scrolling of screens,/ almost off the map, almost heaven, almost where/ sky meets eternity ...'

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  • Poetics,  Points of View,  Stories

    DOGGEREL: The Ballad of Bobby and Joe

    November 4, 2021 /

    Yes, we are not too proud to resort to doggerel to compare the legacies of West Virginia senators Robert C. Byrd and current Sen. Joe Manchin. The legacy match-up is not looking good for Joe, right now.

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