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Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Natural Birth Control, Natural Birth

Book Reviews: A Cooperative Method Of Natural Birth Control And Spiritual Midwifery

I wish I had read this book before giving birth to our daughter, Mara, at home, not because of the many “amazing birthing tales” (I had previously read numerous accounts of homebirths), but because of the attitudes toward labor and delivery expressed in them.

By Priscilla Rich Safransky June 1977
Photography

Photographs By Enrique Vega

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

By Enrique Vega April 1977
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

About Time

I am running out these hours like a man condemned to live them. But life is eternal, sings the wind; everlasting, whispers the rain.

By Sy Safransky March 1977
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Freedom And Other Prisons

There are many prisons — illness, poverty, insanity. Life itself. We create our own realities; if we bleed for one another, so must we laugh. But it’s no less the prison for our having laid the brick.

By Sy Safransky November 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Another Appetite

Little Rebecca has inherited her mother’s desire to explore foreign places. She can sit in the car happily singing, sleeping or just watching the world go by for ten hours as long as she is moving on to new people and places. Some morning she’ll run to the car demanding to “go, go, go someplace.”

By Judy Bratten May 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Memories Of The Sea

Mutation just means the speeding up of the slow natural process of evolution. All I’ve done is to remove it from the realm of the accidental.

Lamellicorn the Clone (Rob Brezsny) March 1976
Essays, Memoirs, & True Stories

Sexuality Is A Blessing

We are sexual beings from the time of our birth until the last years of our life. Sexuality is not a behavior that occurs between adolescence and “old age.”

By Leaf Diamant December 1975