The washboard is flicking a quick carrying beat that shakes through you and pulls you to your feet — the accordion is rocking warm, and a low voice coasts over it, laughing …
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Finding waterfalls along the Appalachian Trail
I came to the waterfall almost by accident. I didn’t know I was close — I just wanted to get into the woods on a sunny morning …
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Bright Half Life weaves a love story through time
We’re on a ferris wheel in 1986, and it’s dusk, and two women are sitting close together. They’re holding hands and talking over the bolts rattling in the wind … and they’re in a long and deep relationship.
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Tomm El-Saieh paints labyrinths in Imaginary Cities
From a distance, the colors shimmer like a crazy quilt of neighborhoods seen from the air, scarlet and blue and yellow, as though the houses were painted as bright as tropical birds …
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Frantz Zéphirin’s paintings dream and dance among the Spirits
Two beings are moving between water and air — they may be floating on the foam of a wave or hovering over the water in a light like a storm at dawn. …
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Exploring country roads in lilac time
Lilac time is here now … These are the few evenings in a year when I can sit on the front steps in the evening and feel petals blow against my shoulder.
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Izhar Patkin honors poet Agha Shahid Ali in light (throwback)
On a spring night, Izhar Patkin’s ‘Veil Suite’ fills the long gallery with rooms of translucent paintings, illuminating Agha Shahid Ali’s poetry.
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Passover stories invite spring transformations
We opened a door into a spring night. I remember, years ago now, a cup of water, a glass of wine and places waiting for whoever walked in. …
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Revel in a spring hike up Ragged Mountain
On a late March Saturday I climbed Ragged mountain with a co-worker, a friend of his and an ecstatic dog who came back with mud up to his belly.
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Live music converges from across the world
The flute holds a long tone and turns it, and the sound flexes like a dancer. Two traditions are meeting here tonight from thousands of miles away.
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