“Is this Heaven?” “No, it’s Iowa.” Most any baseball fan will immediately recognize the quote above from the iconic movie Field of Dreams. Remember when a reanimated Shoeless Joe Jackson looks back across a beautiful baseball field in Iowa farm country and asks Ray Kinsella that loaded question? No doubt, this moment speaks to the trials and tribulations that go along with rescripting one’s past and actualizing a dream, not
“Let there be Form” Pleaded Something That felt too much Apart, too distant And so the concentration began – A hunkering down Of gasses, a conviction A coolness, a slowing down of Molecules, Until there in the center Of the universe Came spinning gently This liquid blue orb. And how lovely she played The soliloquy, the echo Of her tidal breath Upon an infinite stage Her wholeness turning Like a
Recently, we sat down with Evelyn Steel, owner of Nourish Organic Juice in Colorado Springs, to find out why it’s so important to reduce our intake of gluten, dairy, refined sugar, and meat. Here’s what we learned. 1. Wheat grown today is very different than the wheat grown a hundred years ago. It has been genetically modified and bred to generate increased crop yields. This change in the make-up of
I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man I’d sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town He’d tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
Hello USR members and guests, Thanks for spending another entertaining week with us at US Represented. In our weekly Perspective for Hire column, Eric Stephenson’s “Singularity Preppers” warns that “not preparing for the technological singularity would represent a form of gross negligence that could lead to humanity’s extinction or, at the very least, a slave status with which no one would be very happy.” In “Ten Reasons to Visit Your Local Poetry Slam,” Lindsay Deen
They were both up before dawn and doing chores in the cool silence. Kyle headed over to the hen house to get some eggs and shore up some chicken wire. Evelyn went to the barn to check on the livestock. While she was there, she milked their two cows. They returned to the cabin and placed the eggs and milk on the kitchen table, then visited the greenhouse, which was
