Notes From The Precipice

Notes From The Precipice

Location: ScotlandPROLOGUE IN A BBC INTERVIEW, author Lionel Shriver discussed the ‘Five Minutes to Twelve Syndrome.’ Shriver elaborated: ‘It’s a tendency to push things to the very limit. You want to get that last little bit of good life...
Art & Healing On Sacred Land

Art & Healing On Sacred Land

Location: Navajo Nation // Prescott and Flagstaff, Arizona.I. DANGEROUS BOUNDARIES UNLIKE MANY IN OUR beleaguered time, I have the privilege of spending whole days outside – I don’t take this opportunity for joy lightly, and thus have paid special...
Disappearing Hardwoods

Disappearing Hardwoods

Location: US Bay Area/OaklandI.  DISAPPEARING TROPICAL HARDWOODS LAUAN, LUAN, LAWAAN, Meranti, Seraya, Balau, Bangkirai, and Philippine mahogany. All are trade names for the plywood produced from massive tropical hardwood trees harvested legally or illegally from...
Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones

Rhodessa Jones is an actress, teacher, director, writer, and the founding director of the Medea Project, a performance workshop designed to achieve personal and social transformation with incarcerated women and women living with HIV. Her published works include A...
US Border: Jailed Minors

US Border: Jailed Minors

Location: US/Mexico BorderI.  A PERILOUS JOURNEY IT IS SAID THAT EL PASO, TEXAS, is the safest city in the United States. Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just two miles away across the border, has the sad reputation of being the most violent city in Latin America. Between...