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August 1982

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Departments

Editor’s Note

Readers Write

My Body

Chest pains, milk-and-honey days, my best friend

ByOur Readers
Quotations

Sunbeams

Paint the soul. Never mind the legs and arms.

Ralph McTell

August 1982

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Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Leaving

Peering into each room of THE SUN, I look for what I want to carry with me, travel clothes for the psyche to wear to the next chapter, where I don’t know a soul, have had no previews.

ByElizabeth Rose Campbell
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Who Dies?

If we examine our fear of death we see in it a fear of the moment to follow, over which we have no control. In it is a fear of impermanence itself, of the next unknown changing moment of life.

ByStephen Levine
Essays, Memoirs & True Stories

Save The Last Dance For Me

A woman in a gray hooded coat, with hands in her pockets, is actually dancing alone at the bus stop a block away. She is turning and twirling with herself, and now with me, and now with you.

ByRex Weyler
Fiction

Some Joke, Huh?

My brother is weird. I never know what he’s going to do next. Like the time he decides around three o’clock on an August afternoon that he’s going to climb the Franklin Mountains.

ByChuck Taylor
Fiction

Scribe Of The Imperial Memory

It is typhoon season in Japan. The wind rips raveningly at the grass roofs and scatters bales of hay across the fields. It buries the land beneath torrents and pools and knocks down the drenched passersby as they strive for home.

ByPeter Samis
Photography

Photographs By Paul Reynolds

The photographs are available as a PDF only. Click here to download.

ByPaul Reynolds
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The Gabriel Books

Charisma

“The Gabriel Books” are a series of small cartoon books.

ByNatalia d’Arbeloff
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Levitation

ByThomas Rain Crowe
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Selected Poems

BySy Safransky
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The Dolphin Messenger

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