Trust Your Voice – Speak Your Truth by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – From the wisdom of Soulspeak Asheville, young poets considered the question: “What does it mean to speak the truth in America?” I was one of three judges at a reading this week. InContinue Reading
Business of Art by Wendy H. Outland Many of us are intimidated by deadlines! For me, it began several years ago when my business started to gain momentum. Between responding to inquiries about my services and then setting a time to confer with the interested party, providing resources and materialsContinue Reading
by Bill Walz – “Every day we touch what is wrong, and as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to touch what is not wrong – inside us and around us… Peace is available. We only have to touch it…Continue Reading
– A Miracle at Birth – by Max Hammonds, MD – How does a fetus breathe? Do its lungs work? How does it get oxygen? Are the kidneys functioning? Where does the urine go? In a normal human, by breathing, the lungs receive oxygen. The blood from the right sideContinue Reading
And the Special in the Everyday by Greg Vineyard – I recently tore myself away from re-watching the Star Wars series (because I needed some power converters!) to join friends at the Buncombe County Fair, a venue I had not attended since I was a tourist. The 1950s timelessness ofContinue Reading
by James Cassara – In order to whittle down the ever growing stack of discs, I’ll be keeping my reviews to around 200 words, which is much harder than it sounds. Everything here is worth getting, and worth buying at any of our wonderful independently owned record stores. They continueContinue Reading
Gratitude by Carol Pearce Bjorlie, Rapid River Magazine Poetry Editor/Columnist – I celebrated a BIG birthday in August. My favorite gift was a gratitude journal. Page after page is filled with words I’m grateful to know and use. Here’s a small list: joy cerulean cumulus luminous slide persevere light endureContinue Reading
by Max Hammonds, MD – “Everyone knows that our soils are more and more depleted.” “The food that we grow is no longer nutritious. Either we must build up our soils or we must add supplements to our diet to make up for this nutritional deficiency.” Is this true? HowContinue Reading
by Bill Walz – A wave on the ocean has a beginning and an end, a birth and a death. But the wave is empty. The wave is full of water, but it is empty of a separate self. A wave is a form which has been made possible thanksContinue Reading
