Volume 2; Issue 2
As I review the offerings in this issue of leaflet, I realize that in the written pieces there is a resonating theme of loss – loss of loved ones, loss of memory, loss of youth – and the resilient human spirit that allows us to continue on. Through poetry and short stories, the authors reveal their humanity and compassion.
The visual arts tell their own stories in images from petroglyphs to a city street, a flock of birds in a sunset to a volcano, a vase of lilies – reflecting the symbol of loss – to a First Communion – a belief in life continuing.
leaflet offers all of these and more. I hope you are inspired, provoked, and given to thought by this issue.
—Max McMillen, ELS
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--For my mother --Irma McMahon Kelly; 1913-2003 My father and I linger in the belly of a van. Staring into…
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This photo was taken in Paris, near the Opéra. We saw children coming out of a church from their communion,…
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I am not content with a formulaic approach to painting, and continually explore different techniques and new ways to express…
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I’ve been taking pictures and writing since the early 1960s when I started with a Kodak Retinette and a…
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It was on a workshop in Canyon de Chelly in Arizona that I had a chance to photograph the Narbona…
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I began drawing from the time I was able to hold a crayon and began painting shortly afterwards. I studied…
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I’m making it public: my little sister is dead. Writing out those words makes it impossible to take them back.…
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Walking into our first patient’s room, I am overtaken by the putrid smell of urine. My sense of smell is…
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Dad ponders family photos Wondering If he ever knew those people They look so familiar … A catch in his breath as He knows he…
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Easter, 1969The three of us are squinting into the sun in the old Polaroid photograph. My Mom is wearing white…
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I worked in ceramics for many years, starting my own pottery studio, Black Dog, in Mokuleia, Hawaii. A number of…
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This is a story about my mother, Sylvia, and a story about the devastating stroke that changed everything. But before…
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