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August 2016

August 22, 2016

Sitting Together: A Week at the Glen Workshop

I’m an introvert who loves to talk, an often confusing combination that can leave me...

August 16, 2016

The Neglected Garden, Part II

Continued from yesterday. The dollhouse my father was building for me was still unfinished when...

August 15, 2016

The Neglected Garden, Part I

When my father built the house where I was born, the land was flat and...

August 09, 2016

Fit for Immortality?

“How’s your health?” my long-time friend asked me with concern. “The leukemia is creeping toward...

August 04, 2016

Blood Lines

Last September, I was in Philadelphia for the first time since my freshman year of...

August 03, 2016

Maybe the Kids Will Sleep in Tomorrow

The kids are home for the summer, but my husband has remained on the same...

July 2016

July 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: Four Sonnets

Sonnets meditating on illuminated manuscripts of the Middle Ages may sound a bit sanctimonious, even...

July 26, 2016

From the Engine Room, Part II: Mountains of Time

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell Continued from yesterday. Up until this point, in describing what it’s...

July 25, 2016

From the Engine Room, Part I: The Problem with Efficiency

By Mary Kenagy Mitchell About a year ago we at Image dragged ourselves into the...

July 21, 2016

My Money, My Life

My money is the Tao te Ching, translated and introduced by David Hinton. My $12.87...

July 15, 2016

Poetry Friday: “I Am Poured Out Like Water”

What attracts me to this poem is something deliberately absent yet evocatively present: baptism in...

July 12, 2016

Eat the Delicious Earth

A year ago, I started cooking and learning how to prepare and love food in...

July 11, 2016

Gotta Dance

My mother was a dancer. I use the term dancer in the most flexible possible...

June 2016

June 01, 2016

The Arab of the Future

I snuck into a chair while a friend was describing how growing up under a...

May 2016

May 31, 2016

Richard Wilbur’s Poetry Captures Our Days

Last night I read a poem that showed me in a flash why I save...

May 23, 2016

The Prophet of Uninterrupted Complaint

I am grateful for deadlines, even when I have little time, or only brief windows...

May 03, 2016

Canada: Detroit’s Southerly Neighbor

Detroit is the only major city in America, people will tell you (even if you...

April 2016

April 29, 2016

Poetry Friday: “When God Dreamed Eve through Adam” by Richard Chess

The Genesis story of the creation of Adam and Eve: poets for centuries have been...

April 27, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 2

This editorial statement from issue 88 is continued from yesterday. Read Part 1 here. In...

April 26, 2016

Annie Spans the Gap, Part 1

The following appears as the editorial statement in Image issue 88. There is no such...

April 12, 2016

Charles of the Desert

By Rebecca A. Spears One early June, traveling to a wedding in San Diego, I’d...

March 2016

March 17, 2016

Changing Positions: A Meditation for Campaign Season

(With help from Donovan, D. T. Suzuki, Qingyuan Weixin, Wallace Stevens, democracy, REM, Bonnie Raitt,...

March 15, 2016

Diego Rivera’s Detroit Industry

The Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) is obviously not a religious institution. But damn if...

March 11, 2016

Poetry Friday: “Meditation on the Evangelista” by Karen An-Hwei Lee

What if God turned up at your door in the form of a brush salesman?...

February 2016

February 25, 2016

Detroit: The Reality of Death and the Reality of Life

At night, through the mottled glass of a door that leads out onto the roof...

February 19, 2016

Fiat Lux: Cathedral of the Pines

This summer in Paris, on the morning before we flew home, I took my husband...

February 18, 2016

Everyone’s Waiting for the Victory Song

Everyone knows what happened. Everyone lifts a steaming spoon of cinnamon oatmeal to their lips....

February 05, 2016

Brooklyn: A Drama of Discernment

One of the hardest things in life is having two good choices that are completely...

February 03, 2016

Creating Sacred Literature

“We are just at the beginning,” Charles Taylor wrote in his lumpy but essential tome, A...

February 02, 2016

The Erotic Powers of the Holy Spirit

My thirteen-year-old son had seen the Viagra commercials for years, but never understood what they...