Nonfiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 Letter from the Guest Nonfiction Editor: Practicing Wellness by Brenda Arthur n my first few days as a newly minted emergency medicine resident physician, I have seen more dead bodies in my hospital’s trauma bays and resuscitation rooms than I have throughout my entire twenty-six years of prior life. No amount of schooling could have prepared me for this pain or dysregulation of all my sensations. No additional hours of ...
Read MoreEditorial Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 Letter from the Editor: Up Again, Old Heart! by Tracy Granzyk ecovery from the last eighteen months, especially for our healthcare workforce, will require rest. Without it, burnout is a real risk. Even if we aren’t caring for patients or loved ones and feel as though we have handled the challenges presented by COVID-19 with grace, every one of us still needs to carve out time to ...
Read MoreFiction Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 Letter from the Guest Fiction Editor: Resting, Recovering, and Developing Resilience by Barbara Riddle es, we will gradually be rested and refreshed as we recover from the crisis of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Some routines will return to normal. Others will be utterly abandoned or reconfigured for the better. The fallout on our mental and physical selves is yet to be determined. I believe we were long ...
Read MorePoetry Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Life as an Oak, at Recovery by Jonathan B. Aibel Life as an Oak, at Recovery Forenoon is a wholeness the greening sun lifts from soil turned in the twist and chew of earthworms, sunlight reaching through open branches shaken by squirrels, gypsy moth carried by redwing blackbird, a beak full of lunch. I walk the air paper-winged. In night’s revolve, the bats flicker uneven in circles, frogs croak blue, trees charcoal webbed by ...
Read MoreArt Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Cindy Phan Bellevue Botanical Garden by Cindy Phan apanese shrine captured on Nikon D5500 digital SLR with 18-55mm lens. Natural lighting was used and very minimal editing was done.Cindy Phan is an ice skater, inline skater, and outdoor adventurer. She prides herself in being that one friend you’ll never get bored around, as she’s full of ideas and always tries to get ...
Read MoreArt Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Tracy Whiteside Drowning My Sorrows by Tracy Whiteside rowning My Sorrows was born from so many emotions. The feeling of failure, of hopelessness, of sinking. The girl is not fighting. She has surrendered. I think there are moments when we all feel like giving up. We are just tired of trying to climb out of the sand pit. But when she hits ...
Read MoreArt Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Jamie Azevedo Anchoresses by Jamie Azevedo am constantly thinking about the human condition, the world we inhabit, and how we think we exist. Are there boundaries between here and there, us and them, or then and now? In observing our world, I believe deeply in the interconnectedness of everything. I abstract photographs to portray one simple thought: nothing we encounter goes ...
Read MoreArt Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Evelina Kvartunaite Still Moment by Evelina Kvartunaite his is a digital artwork that I created in the Procreate program. The drawing was inspired by the photograph of Indre Krucaite taken by Monika Markeviciute. The drawing is part of a series of photographs and digital artworks focusing on diversity and human beauty that I have been working on for around eight months now. ...
Read MoreArt Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Kaelin Hanrattie Healing Ever So Slowly by Kaelin Hanrattie hooting film takes my worries off the shot being perfect. While I was recovering from my surgery, that’s how I took pictures for the most part, on film. That way it was spontaneous. I had something to look forward to.Kaelin Hanrattie was born in Vietnam but has been raised all of her life ...
Read MoreArt Issue #8: Rest & Recovery August 19th, 2021 August 19th, 2021 Artist’s Statement by Nathan DiPerri & Julianne Frega Just Vaccinated by Nathan J. DiPerri & Julianne Frega ur cartoon features an elderly couple joyfully embarking on their lives together as a newly vaccinated couple. This idea was born out of contemplating the ways in which the vaccination offers life a new beginning, the elation and relief one may feel upon becoming vaccinated, and the fact ...
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